Claim · model-written summary
Biochar improved AMF colonization percentage under drought.
- Taxon
- chickpea
Cicer arietinumt0 - Treatment
- biochar amendmente0
- Interactor
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungit1symbiont
- Outcome
- percentage of colonizatione0
- Direction
- improvinge0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“biochar amendment ameliorated the negative effects of drought significantly by improving the spore population, number of mycelium, vesicle and arbuscules and the percentage of colonization as well”
t0“chickpea”
t1“Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi”
Title
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and biochar improves drought tolerance in chickpea
Abeer Hashem; Ashwani Kumar; Abeer M. Al-Dbass; et al. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 2018. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2018.11.005
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect AMF inoculation improved shoot and root length, leaf area, and branch number.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced shoot and root length, leaf area, and branch number.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced AMF colonization potential.
- Intervention effect Biochar ameliorated drought effects by improving AMF spore population, mycelium, vesicles and arbuscules.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF treatment increased chlorophyll synthesis.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF treatment significantly enhanced net photosynthetic efficiency.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced relative water content and membrane stability index.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF, separately or together, mitigated drought effects on relative water content and membrane stability index.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF increased nodule number and weight.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF increased leghemoglobin content and nitrate reductase activity.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF increased nitrogen uptake and assimilation relative to drought-stressed plants.
- Intervention effect Drought reduced chickpea uptake of nitrogen and phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Biochar and AMF ameliorated drought-related reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus uptake.