Claim · model-written summary
Inoculated plants showed less nitrite decline than controls.
- Treatment
- P1 and P2e0
- Outcome
- nitritee0
- Direction
- lesser declinede0
- Value
- 21.1 to 9.3%e0
- Comparator
- control plants (P0)e0
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Verbatim
e0“lesser declined in nitrite (21.1 to 9.3%) and nitrate content (50.0 to 24.0 %) in P1 and P2 plants compared to control plants (P0).”
t0“Scrutinize the integrated role of Azotobacter vinelandii in nitrogen assimilation, photosystem II functionality and aerenchyma formation of Zea mays under moisture stress environment”
Title
Komal Nida; Zamin Shaheed Siddiqui; Zeeshan Ahmed Salman; et al. Plant Stress 2024. doi:10.1016/j.stress.2024.100378
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Azotobacter treatments lessened seedling growth decline under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter treatments lessened biomass loss under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect Bacterial applications maintained relative water content under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect Treated plants had smaller osmotic potential decreases than controls.
- Association Increasing moisture stress increased plant energy loss.
- Intervention effect Untreated plants had higher qN than inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Untreated plants had higher NPQ than inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter increased electron transport quantum yield in suboptimal moisture.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter increased light reaction efficiency in suboptimal moisture.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter increased biochemical reaction efficiency in suboptimal moisture.
- Intervention effect Inoculated plants showed less nitrate decline than controls.
- Observation P2 plants showed a 22% protein decline.
- Observation P2 plants showed 8.0% nitrite reductase activity change.
- Observation P2 plants showed 5.1% nitrate reductase activity change.
- Intervention effect Azotobacter promoted root aerenchyma formation under stress.
- Recommendation Authors propose Azotobacter use for sustainable agriculture under moisture stress.