Claim · model-written summary
Pb stress reduced rhizosphere microbial community evenness under high Pb stress in Cuminum cyminum.
- Taxon
- Cuminum cyminum L.
Cuminum cyminume0 - Treatment
- Pb stresse6
- Interactor
- rhizosphere microbial communitiese5symbiont
- Outcome
- community evennesse6
- Direction
- reducinge6
- Qualifier
- under high Pb stresse6
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Verbatim
e0“Cuminum cyminum L. is an important spice crop widely cultivated in arid regions”
e6“reducing community evenness under high Pb stress”
e5“Pb stress reshaped rhizosphere microbial communities by increasing microbial richness at low and moderate Pb levels”
Title
Xinlong Yang; Weiguo Liu; Yuqing Mao; et al. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2026.120390
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Pb significantly decreased soil pH, organic matter and nitrogen availability in the Cuminum cyminum field experiment.
- Intervention effect Pb significantly decreased available phosphorus and potassium in the soil of Cuminum cyminum.
- Intervention effect Pb altered soil enzyme activities by suppressing urease and acid phosphatase activity in the Cuminum cyminum field experiment.
- Intervention effect Pb enhanced soil catalase activity in the Cuminum cyminum field experiment.
- Intervention effect Pb stress increased rhizosphere microbial richness at low and moderate Pb levels in Cuminum cyminum.
- Intervention effect Pb stress selectively enriched metal-tolerant Sphingomonas, Arenimonas and Gemmatimonas in the rhizosphere of Cuminum cyminum.
- Observation Functional analyses showed a broad enhancement of rhizosphere microbial metabolic potential in Cuminum cyminum samples, particularly in amino acid, carbohydrate and energy metabolism.
- Association Pb exposure was associated with accumulation of amino acids, organic acids and flavonoids in Cuminum cyminum roots.
- Association Soil physicochemical properties correlated more strongly with plant growth than root metabolites or rhizosphere microorganisms under Pb stress.