Claim · model-written summary
AM fungi increased relative leaf water content in pea by 3% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Taxon
- pea
Lathyrus oleraceuse0 - Treatment
- AM fungie0
- Interactor
- AM fungiGlomeromycotae0symbiont
- Outcome
- relative leaf water contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 3%e0
- Comparator
- non-AM fungi counterpartse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Integrated use of AM fungi at varying phosphorus (P) levels and irrigation regimes led to significantly higher relative leaf water content (3% each) in okra and pea besides significantly higher xylem water potential (27%) in pea over non-AM fungi counterparts.”
Title
Anil Kumar; Anil Kumar Choudhary; V. K. Suri Journal of Plant Nutrition 2015. doi:10.1080/01904167.2015.1087030
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased relative leaf water content in okra by 3% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased pea xylem water potential by 27% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased okra water-use efficiency by 5–17%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased pea water-use efficiency by 12–35%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi improved soil water holding capacity by 5–6%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi improved mean weight diameter of soil particles by 4–9%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi had nominal or no effect on bulk density.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants maintained higher tissue water content than non-mycorrhizal plants under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants had greater drought resistance under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect The authors inferred that integrated AM fungi and phosphorus improved crop productivity in the okra–pea sequence.