Claim · model-written summary
Preliminary field results suggest that seed priming used to apply Rhizobia is very effective beyond priming with water alone.
- Taxon
- cropse6
- Treatment
- seed priming as a vehicle for applying biofertilisers (Rhizobia)e5
- Interactor
- Rhizobiae5symbiont
- Outcome
- effectivee4
- Direction
- very effectivee4
- Comparator
- priming with water alonee4
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Verbatim
e4“Preliminary results from field experiments suggest that these interventions are very effective over and above the already demonstrated benefits of priming with water alone”
e5“Recent work has tested opportunities for resource-poor farmers to use seed priming as a vehicle for applying biofertilisers (Rhizobia)”
e6“It increases the yield of tropical and subtropical annual crops in marginal areas”
Title
D. Harris; W. A. Breese; J. V. D. K. Kumar Rao Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 2005. doi:10.1071/ar05079
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect In a chickpea pot experiment, combining Rhizobium inoculation with seed priming significantly increased nodulation.
- Intervention effect In a chickpea pot experiment, combining Rhizobium inoculation with seed priming had little effect on yield.
- Intervention effect Priming pearl millet seeds of a highly susceptible cultivar in water for 8 h before sowing significantly reduced downy mildew incidence in artificially infected seedlings, from 80% to below 60%.
- Observation Observations in the field show that some primed crops have enhanced resistance to disease.