Claim · model-written summary
Sucrose was the best growth carbon source in all three plant species.
- Taxon
- Bauhinia forficata Link, Curcuma zedoaria Roscoe and Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Phaseolus vulgaris
Curcuma zedoaria
Bauhinia forficatae1 - Treatment
- Sucrosee0
- Outcome
- best carbon sourcee0
- Direction
- beste0
- Comparator
- all the three plant species testede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.



Verbatim
e0“Sucrose was the best carbon source for all the three plant species tested.”
e1“Bauhinia forficata Link, Curcuma zedoaria Roscoe and Phaseolus vulgaris L.”
Title
Marcia Ometto Mello; Carlos Tadeu Santos Dias; Antônio Francisco Campos Amaral; et al. Scientia Agricola 2001. doi:10.1590/s0103-90162001000300007
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Galactose promoted slow or no growth across the three species.
- Intervention effect Glycerol promoted slow or no growth across the three species.
- Intervention effect Sucrose promoted meristemoid formation in liquid medium.
- Intervention effect Sorbitol did not promote significant growth.
- Intervention effect Sorbitol was the sole alternative carbon source to promote meristemoid formation.