Claim · model-written summary
FBE promoted growth of total active microbes in the growing media, particularly the fungal population.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- FBEe0
- Interactor
- fungal populatione0other
- Outcome
- growth of total active microbese0
- Direction
- promotede0
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Verbatim
e0“FBE promoted the growth of total active microbes in the growing media, particularly the fungal population”
t0“Tomato”
Title
Marianne Weisser; Scott William Mattner; Liam Southam-Rogers; et al. Plants 2023. doi:10.3390/plants13010004
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Application of the fortified biostimulant extract (FBE) significantly increased tomato fruit yield by 20%.
- Intervention effect Application of FBE significantly increased relative marketable tomato fruit yield by 27%.
- Intervention effect Application of FBE reduced estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with tomato production by 29%.
- Intervention effect FBE treatment improved tomato plant shoot and root biomass.
- Intervention effect FBE treatment accelerated flower and fruit set initiation in tomato.
- Intervention effect FBE treatment increased chlorophyll content in tomato leaves.
- Intervention effect FBE treatment positively influenced the availability of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron in the tomato growing media.