Claim · model-written summary
PGPR seed treatment enhanced cocoa germination rates by 35.71% over control.
- Taxon
- cocoa
Theobroma cacaoe1 - Treatment
- PGPR seed treatmente1
- Outcome
- germination ratese1
- Direction
- enhancede1
- Value
- 35.71% increasee1
- Comparator
- controle1
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Verbatim
e1“PGPR seed treatment significantly enhanced cocoa germination rates (35.71% increase over control), seedling vigour index (by 441.84%), and root-shoot biomass (p < 0.05)”
Title
B. Neeraja; V. Prasanna Kumari; K. Gopal; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-07166-6
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- Intervention effect Isolate NEG27 inhibited P. palmivora mycelial growth by 82.26% in vitro.
- Intervention effect Isolate NWG12 inhibited P. palmivora mycelial growth by 77.41% in vitro.
- Intervention effect Isolate NEG14 inhibited P. palmivora mycelial growth by 76.30% in vitro.
- Observation Antagonism by the isolates caused severe hyphal disintegration and malformed zoospores of P. palmivora.
- Observation Six isolates were identified as Pseudomonas and Stutzerimonas species by 16S rRNA sequencing.
- Observation Six isolates showed strong antifungal activity.
- Intervention effect PGPR seed treatment enhanced the seedling vigour index by 441.84% relative to control.
- Intervention effect PGPR seed treatment significantly enhanced cocoa root-shoot biomass.
- Intervention effect Combined foliar application of NEG27, NWG12 and NSK3 at 1.5% significantly reduced pod rot disease severity in cocoa.
- Intervention effect Combined foliar application of NEG27, NWG12 and NSK3 improved yield-related traits and the benefit-to-cost ratio in cocoa.
- Recommendation Indigenous PGPR strains are viable alternatives to chemical fungicides for cocoa pod rot.