Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude rhizobia isolates enriched soil relative to NPK fertilization.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0 - Treatment
- rhizobia isolatese0
- Interactor
- rhizobia isolatese0symbiont
- Outcome
- soile0
- Direction
- enrichede0
- Comparator
- the Nitrogen, Phoshorus and potassium (NPK) fertilized soile0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“the rhizobia isolates improved the cowpea yield and also enriched the soil compared to the Nitrogen, Phoshorus and potassium (NPK) fertilized soil.”
Title
Olasupo O Adeyemi; Yetunde M Feruke-Bello; Olu Odeyemi Sustainable Microbiology 2025. doi:10.1093/sumbio/qvaf004
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- Intervention effect Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium isolates significantly enhanced nodulation, with 50% effective nodules for Ife brown.
- Intervention effect The isolates significantly enhanced nodulation, with 81.25% effective nodules for Ife BPC.
- Intervention effect Bradyrhizobium sp C7 significantly increased Ife brown yield to 73.92 g.
- Intervention effect Bradyrhizobium sp C7 significantly increased Ife BPC yield to 58.14 g.
- Observation Rhizobia association increased soil nitrogen to 84.28 mg/g with Ife brown.
- Observation Rhizobia association increased soil nitrogen to 55.89 mg/g with Ife BPC.
- Observation Sixteen rhizobia isolates resisted five listed pesticides.
- Observation Four Rhizobium isolates were sensitive to glyphosate at 14.4 mg/ml.
- Observation Paraquat inhibited 14 of 16 rhizobial species at 2.76 mg/ml.
- Intervention effect The authors conclude rhizobia isolates improved cowpea yield relative to NPK fertilization.