Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation with half fertilization raised nitrogen uptake by over 50%.
- Taxon
- basil
Ocimum basilicumt0 - Treatment
- inoculation with 50% fertilizatione0
- Outcome
- nitrogen and potassium uptakee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- over 50%e0
- Comparator
- complete recommended fertilization without inoculatione0
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Verbatim
e0“inoculation with 50% fertilization increased nitrogen and potassium uptake by over 50% compared to receiving the complete recommended fertilization without inoculation, while phosphorus uptake increased by more than 28% relative to the same control.”
t0“basil”
Title
José I. Beltrán-Medina; Gabriela Toro-Tobón; Jonathan A. Mendoza-Labrador; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2025. doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1591969
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect The three-species consortium increased basil fresh biomass by over 130%.
- Intervention effect The two-species consortium increased basil fresh biomass by over 130%.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with half fertilization raised potassium uptake by over 50%.
- Intervention effect Inoculation with half fertilization raised phosphorus uptake by more than 28%.
- Recommendation The authors propose PGPB consortia for basil biomass and nutrient uptake.