Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation independently alleviated adverse arsenic stress effects on cotton.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Treatment
- AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe2symbiont
- Outcome
- cotton growth, root morphology, photosynthetic characteristics, osmotic regulators, antioxidant enzyme activities, and ion homeostasise1
- Direction
- alleviatede0
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Verbatim
e0“Both AMF inoculation and Ca2+ application independently alleviated these adverse effects of As stress.”
e1“effects on cotton growth, root morphology, photosynthetic characteristics, osmotic regulators, antioxidant enzyme activities, and ion homeostasis under As stress.”
t0“Cotton”
e2“arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation”
Title
Qiaoming Zhang; Wenjing Yang; Caiyun Zhang; et al. Journal of Fungi 2026. doi:10.3390/jof12050335
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress decreased cotton height and shoot and root dry weight.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress reduced cotton root length, area, and fork number.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress reduced cotton Pn, Ci, and Fv/Fm.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress reduced cotton ΦPSII.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress decreased cotton proline, soluble sugar, and protein.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress inhibited cotton SOD, POD, and CAT activities.
- Intervention effect Arsenic stress reduced cotton K+ and Ca2+ concentrations and their ratio.
- Intervention effect Calcium application independently alleviated adverse arsenic stress effects on cotton.
- Intervention effect Combined AMF and calcium optimized cotton root architecture better than either treatment alone.
- Intervention effect Combined AMF and calcium improved cotton stomatal function and photosynthetic efficiency better than either treatment alone.
- Intervention effect Combined AMF and calcium increased cotton osmotic regulators and antioxidant enzyme activities better than either alone.
- Intervention effect Combined AMF and calcium restored cotton ion balance better than either alone.
- Association Three-way ANOVA found significant arsenic by AMF by calcium interactions for Pn and ΦPSII.