Claim · model-written summary
S. subterranea inoculation reduced potato plant growth in all eight cultivars.
- Treatment
- S. subterranea inoculatione0
- Interactor
- S. subterranea
Spongospora subterraneae0pathogen - Outcome
- plant growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
e0“Water uptake and plant growth were reduced by S. subterranea inoculation in all eight cultivars”
Title
R. E. Falloon; U. Merz; R. C. Butler; et al. Plant Pathology 2015. doi:10.1111/ppa.12419
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect S. subterranea inoculation reduced potato water uptake in all eight cultivars.
- Association The negative effects and root hyperplasia intensity differed among potato cultivars.
- Association Potato root responses were not related to cultivar susceptibility to tuber powdery scab.
- Intervention effect Soil beneath uninoculated potato plants held less water than beneath inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Inoculation reduced potato shoot dry weight.
- Intervention effect Inoculation reduced potato root dry weight.
- Intervention effect Inoculation reduced potato tuber weight per plant by 42%.
- Mechanism Spongospora subterranea causes potato root membrane dysfunction.
- Mechanism Spongospora subterranea causes potato root hyperplasia.
- Mechanism Spongospora subterranea causes potato tuber powdery scab.