Claim · model-written summary
Both bacterial inoculants increased alfalfa root length and weight under salinity.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativat0 - Treatment
- both PGPBe0
- Outcome
- root length and weighte0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse1
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Verbatim
e0“Inoculation of cultivars with both PGPB mitigated the negative effects of salinity on plants growth by increasing the root length and weight”
t0“alfalfa”
e1“compared with non-inoculated plants”
Title
Mohammad Ansari; Farid Shekari; Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi; et al. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 2019. doi:10.1007/s11738-019-2988-5
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced RWC, MSI and K + in all cultivars.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced photosynthesis rate and stomatal conductance.
- Intervention effect Salinity reduced leaf number, height and dry weight.
- Intervention effect Salinity increased sodium in all cultivars.
- Intervention effect Both bacterial inoculants increased nodule number and chlorophyll pigments.
- Intervention effect Both bacterial inoculants increased RWC, MSI and Pn.
- Intervention effect Both bacterial inoculants increased stomatal conductance.
- Intervention effect Pseudomonas sp. gave stronger improvements in chlorophyll, height and leaf number under salinity.
- Intervention effect Pseudomonas sp. gave stronger improvements in Na +, K + /Na + and nodule number.
- Intervention effect H. diazotrophicus gave stronger improvements in K +, carotenoids and RWC under salinity.
- Intervention effect At 10 dS m −1, inoculation improved growth in salt tolerant cultivars.
- Intervention effect At 10 dS m −1, inoculation improved growth in salt sensitive cultivars.
- Intervention effect At 20 dS m −1, inoculation succeeded only in salt tolerant cultivars.