Claim · model-written summary
Salinity reduced seed yield per plant.
- Taxon
- chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- salinitye0
- Outcome
- seed yield plant −1e0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“salinity significantly reduced key agro-morphological parameters, including seedling length, nodules plant −1 , leaf area index, plant height, branches, pods plant −1 , pod length, seeds pod −1 , 100-seed weight, and seed yield plant −1”
t0“chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)”
Title
Varsha Kundu; Moushree Sarkar; Sabyasachi Kundagrami Discover Plants. 2025. doi:10.1007/s44372-025-00252-x
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced seedling length, nodules per plant, and leaf area index.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced plant height, branches, and pods per plant.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced pod length, seeds per pod, and 100-seed weight.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation improved seedling emergence by 45% under field conditions.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation improved plant height by 52% under field conditions.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation improved pod number by 95% under field conditions.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation improved seed yield by 48% under field conditions.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation under salinity increased spore population by 535%.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation under salinity increased mycelial colonization by 181%.
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation under salinity increased arbuscule colonization by 204%.
- Intervention effect AMF treatment significantly improved total phenolic content, relative water content, and membrane stability under salinity.
- Intervention effect AMF treatment significantly improved chlorophyll levels under salinity.