Claim · model-written summary
Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised nitrogenase activity.
- Taxon
- SUNFLOWER
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- compost, bio fertilizers and natural mineral rockse0
- Outcome
- nitrogenasee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- untreated treatmentse0
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Verbatim
e0“applying of compost, bio fertilizers and natural mineral rocks had support Rhizosphere microorganism (RMO) and gave higher values of total bacteria counts, nitrogenase and dehydrogenase activity as compared to untreated treatments”
t0“SUNFLOWER”
Title
N. Mahrous; A. Ragab; H. Abotaleb; et al. Journal of Plant Production 2014. doi:10.21608/jpp.2014.53660
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased head diameter by 4% in the first season versus recommended NPK.
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased seed yield per plant by 5% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased seed yield per faddan by 13% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Alternative fertilizers increased 100-seed weight by 5% in the first season.
- Intervention effect Head diameter increased by 4% in the second season.
- Intervention effect Seed yield per plant increased by 8% in the second season.
- Intervention effect Seed yield per faddan increased by 19% in the second season.
- Intervention effect 100-seed weight increased by 3% in the second season.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction was not significant for most studied traits.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction affected seed oil content in both seasons.
- Association Variety by fertilizer interaction affected seed protein content in both seasons.
- Intervention effect Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised rhizosphere bacterial counts against untreated treatments.
- Intervention effect Compost, biofertilizers and mineral rocks raised dehydrogenase activity.