Claim · model-written summary
Maize cultivation benefited soil enzymes and microorganisms and mitigated insecticide-induced anomalies.
- Treatment
- cultivation of Zea mayse0
- Interactor
- soil microorganismse0other
- Outcome
- soil enzymes and soil microorganismse0
- Direction
- positive effecte0
- Qualifier
- mitigated the anomalies caused by the tested insecticides in the microbiome and activity of soil enzymese0
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Verbatim
e0“The cultivation of Zea mays had a positive effect on both soil enzymes and soil microorganisms and mitigated the anomalies caused by the tested insecticides in the microbiome and activity of soil enzymes.”
Title
The Impact of Permethrin and Cypermethrin on Plants, Soil Enzyme Activity, and Microbial Communities
Agata Borowik; Jadwiga Wyszkowska; Magdalena Zaborowska; et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023. doi:10.3390/ijms24032892
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Permethrin and cypermethrin stimulated cultured organotrophic bacteria multiplication by 38.3% on average.
- Intervention effect Permethrin and cypermethrin stimulated actinomycete multiplication by 80.2% on average.
- Intervention effect Permethrin and cypermethrin inhibited fungal growth by 31.7% on average.
- Intervention effect The insecticides inhibited soil enzymatic activity and reduced its biochemical fertility index by 27.7%.
- Intervention effect The insecticides modified Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria OTU numbers.
- Intervention effect The insecticides modified Ascomycota and Basidiomycota OTU numbers.
- Observation Sphingomonas clones tolerated insecticide pressure well.
- Observation Bacillus clones tolerated insecticide pressure well.
- Observation Penicillium tolerated insecticide pressure well.
- Observation Trichocladium tolerated insecticide pressure well.
- Intervention effect Both insecticides decreased maize leaf greenness.
- Intervention effect Permethrin decreased maize aerial-part yield by 37.9%.
- Intervention effect Permethrin decreased maize root yield by 33.9%.
- Intervention effect Cypermethrin decreased maize aerial-part yield by 16.8%.
- Intervention effect Cypermethrin decreased maize root yield by 4.3%.