Claim · model-written summary
The microbial consortium significantly affected the microbial community of tomato roots, depending on the cultivar.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume3 - Treatment
- the treatmente4
- Outcome
- microbial community of the tomato rootse4
- Qualifier
- depending on the cultivars usede4
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Verbatim
e4“Furthermore, the treatment significantly affected the microbial community of the tomato roots depending on the cultivars used”
e3“The consortium was applied by fertigation to five tomato cultivars”
Title
Giulio Flavio Rizzo; Luca Ciccarello; Donata Arena; et al. Frontiers in Horticulture 2026. doi:10.3389/fhort.2025.1679927
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- Intervention effect The microbial consortium enhanced tomato growth and yield compared with control plants in a cold greenhouse in Sicily.
- Association Phthorimaea absoluta infestation affected tomato plant growth and yield in the greenhouse.
- Observation Root galls caused by Meloidogyne nematodes were observed on tomato roots.
- Intervention effect Beta diversity of root microbiota differed significantly between plants grown in treated and untreated soils for both datasets.
- Observation Alpha diversity indices of tomato root bacteria were largely unaffected.
- Association The genotype and the soil treatment by the microbial consortium affected alpha diversity indices for fungi and nematodes in tomato roots.
- Association Several operational taxonomic units were associated with the soil treatment by the microbial consortium in tomato roots.
- Intervention effect The microbial consortium alleviated damage symptoms in tomato caused by Phthorimaea absoluta and Meloidogyne spp.