Claim · model-written summary
Authors suggest altered growth and microbial traits may strengthen Verticillium wilt resistance.
- Treatment
- Graftinge0
- Interactor
- VerticilliumVerticilliume0pathogen
- Outcome
- resistance to Verticillium wilte0
- Qualifier
- maye0
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Verbatim
e0“Grafting could modify the plant growth and microbial characteristics which may enhance the resistance to Verticillium wilt”
Title
Biological characteristics of grafted eggplant on tomato rootstocks
Liu Na African Journal of Agricultural Research 2012. doi:10.5897/ajar11.2113
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Grafted eggplant had greater height, stem diameter, and leaf area than ungrafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafted eggplant had greater root volume than ungrafted plants.
- Observation The growth advantage of grafted eggplant increased over time.
- Intervention effect Grafted eggplant had higher root active absorbing area and chlorophyll content.
- Intervention effect Grafted eggplant had higher POX and PAL activities.
- Intervention effect Grafting decreased comparative conductivity by 42.42%.
- Intervention effect Grafting decreased free proline content by 44.08%.
- Intervention effect Fruit soluble sugar, vitamin C, and protein were not lower under grafting.
- Intervention effect Grafting did not significantly affect fruit quality.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants had more rhizosphere bacteria, actinomyces, and total microbes.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants had higher actinomyces-to-fungi and bacteria-to-fungi ratios.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants had higher microbial biomass.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants had lower fungal populations.
- Intervention effect Grafting enhanced rhizosphere urease and catalase activities.