Claim · model-written summary
A. occidentalis had moderate species-dependent effects.
- Taxon
- plante0
- Treatment
- A. occidentalise0
- Interactor
- A. occidentalis
Austroboletus occidentalise0symbiont - Outcome
- effects of A. occidentalis were moderate and species dependente0
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Verbatim
e0“Native soil microbes had a dominant influence on plant traits and rhizosphere enzyme activities, whereas the effects of A. occidentalis were moderate and species dependent.”
Title
Rodica Pena; Alana Rogers; Aysha Hales-Henao; et al. Rhizosphere 2026. doi:10.1016/j.rhisph.2026.101350
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Native soil microbes dominated plant traits and rhizosphere enzyme activities.
- Intervention effect Inoculation improved plant survival and height.
- Intervention effect Inoculation did not enhance nutrient acquisition.
- Intervention effect In wheat, inoculation reduced leaf phosphorus concentrations.
- Intervention effect In wheat, inoculation without affecting total phosphorus content.
- Intervention effect Inoculated cabbage had lower leaf nitrogen concentrations.
- Intervention effect Inoculated cabbage had unchanged total nitrogen content.
- Intervention effect Inoculated lettuce had lower leaf nitrogen concentrations.
- Intervention effect Inoculated lettuce had unchanged total nitrogen content.
- Intervention effect Untreated soils supported higher rhizosphere enzymatic activity.
- Association Treated soils were associated with greater tissue nutrient concentrations.
- Mechanism Native microbes enhanced rhizosphere enzyme activity.
- Association Enzyme activity was positively associated with nutrient concentrations.
- Association Plant biomass was negatively related to nutrient levels.
- Association No direct effect of enzyme activity on biomass was detected.