Claim · model-written summary
Humic acid increased the abundance of Firmicutes in bacteria, which is reported as beneficial to plant growth.
- Taxon
- peanut
Arachis hypogaeae0 - Treatment
- humic acide5
- Outcome
- abundance of Firmicutes in bacteriae5
- Direction
- increasede5
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Verbatim
e0“a three-year consecutive experiment of cropping peanut was conducted in the North China Plain”
e5“the number of bacteria decreased while that of fungi increased after humic acid treatment. The abundance of Firmicutes in bacteria, Basidiomycota, and Mortierellomycota in fungi all increased, which have been reported as being beneficial to plant growth”
Title
Yan Li; Feng Fang; Jianlin Wei; et al. Scientific Reports 2019. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-48620-4
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased yield and quality of continuous cropping peanut compared with control experiments.
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased total soil nitrogen, total phosphorus and total potassium, with the maximum effect in the third year.
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased available nitrogen, available phosphorus and available potassium, with the maximum effect in the third year.
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased soil organic matter contents, with the maximum effect in the third year.
- Intervention effect Humic acid significantly increased urease, sucrase and phosphatase activities in soil, most in the maturity period.
- Intervention effect Humic acid decreased the number of bacteria in the soil of continuous cropping peanut.
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased the number of fungi in the soil of continuous cropping peanut.
- Intervention effect Humic acid increased the abundance of Basidiomycota and Mortierellomycota in fungi, reported as beneficial to plant growth.
- Intervention effect Humic acid reduced the abundance of Ascomycota in fungi, genera largely pathogenic to plants.
- Mechanism Humic acid improved yield and quality of continuous cropping peanut through soil physicochemical properties, enzymatic activities and microbial diversity.