Claim · model-written summary
Bacillus and thiamine increased root fresh weight 38%.
- Taxon
- Helianthus annuus
Helianthus annuust0 - Treatment
- B. subtilis IAGS174 and thiaminee0
- Interactor
- B. subtilis IAGS174
Bacillus subtilise0symbiont - Outcome
- fresh weight of shoots and rootse0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- 38%e0
- Comparator
- respective controlled conditionse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.


Verbatim
e0“the combined effect of B. subtilis IAGS174 and thiamine improved the fresh weight of shoots and roots, chlorophyll a , chlorophyll b and carotenoids by 34%, 38%, 15%, 18% and 16%, respectively, under the combined stress of salt and Pb to their respective controlled conditions.”
t0“Helianthus annuus”
Title
Sidra Fatima; Waheed Ullah Khan; Rehana Sardar; et al. PeerJ 2025. doi:10.7717/peerj.19527
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Combined salt and Pb stress decreased root length by 49%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased shoot length by 61%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased root fresh weight by 48%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased shoot fresh weight by 39%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased chlorophyll a by 53%.
- Intervention effect Combined stress decreased chlorophyll b by 55%.
- Intervention effect Stressed sunflowers had higher antioxidant enzymes, phenol, flavonoid and proline.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased shoot fresh weight 34% under combined stress.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased chlorophyll a 15%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased chlorophyll b 18%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased carotenoids 16%.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased antioxidant enzyme activity.
- Intervention effect Bacillus and thiamine increased non-enzymatic antioxidants.
- Intervention effect Bacillus inoculation accelerated Pb and Na translocation.
- Intervention effect Thiamine reduced uptake of Pb and Na.
- Recommendation The authors recommend single and combined PGPR and thiamine to improve stress tolerance.