Claim · model-written summary
Superphosphate-treated cowpea and pigeon pea plants were larger than rock phosphate-treated plants, whether mycorrhizal or not.
- Taxon
- cowpea and pigeon pea
Cajanus cajan
Vigna unguiculatae2 - Treatment
- Superphosphate-treatede2
- Outcome
- plantse2
- Direction
- largere2
- Comparator
- RP-treated plantse2
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Verbatim
t0“cowpea, pigeon pea and groundnut”
e2“Superphosphate-treated cowpea and pigeon pea plants were larger than RP-treated plants whether mycorrhizal or not”
Title
B D Ahiabor; H Hirata Journal of Science and Technology (Ghana) 2008. doi:10.4314/just.v27i3.33058
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Mycorrhiza formation was greater with superphosphate than with rock phosphate.
- Intervention effect Rock phosphate enhanced mycorrhization in cowpea and pigeon pea.
- Intervention effect Rock phosphate decreased mycorrhization in groundnut.
- Intervention effect Groundnut growth increased only when superphosphate was applied and the plant was inoculated with AMF.
- Mechanism Mycorrhizal enhancement of shoot growth in superphosphate-fertilized groundnut could result from improved phosphorus nutrition.
- Intervention effect Shoot dry matter yields and shoot P uptake were similar in mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal rock phosphate-treated plants.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal superphosphate-fertilized plants had increased shoot contents of N, Cu and Fe, attributed to larger shoot size.