Claim · model-written summary
Cucumber yields were higher under bio-organic and organic fertilization.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- (bio-)organic fertilization treatmentse1
- Outcome
- Yieldse1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- conventionale0
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Verbatim
e0“six growing seasons of cucumber under different fertilization regimes (conventional, organic, and Trichoderma bio-organic fertilization)”
e1“Yields were higher in the (bio-)organic fertilization treatments.”
Title
Protists as main indicators and determinants of plant performance
Sai Guo; Wu Xiong; Xinnan Hang; et al. Microbiome 2021. doi:10.1186/s40168-021-01025-w
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Fertilization regimes altered soil abiotic conditions, particularly the bio-organic and organic treatments.
- Intervention effect Bio-organic and organic fertilization shifted protistan communities, especially microbivorous cercozoan protists.
- Association Microbivorous cercozoan protists were positively correlated with plant yield.
- Association Microbivorous cercozoan protists were positively correlated with density of potentially beneficial microorganisms.
- Intervention effect Greenhouse experiments found that cercozoan protists can increase plant growth, potentially through beneficial microorganisms including Trichoderma.
- Recommendation The authors suggest enhancing or applying plant-beneficial protists as biofertilizers.