Claim · model-written summary
PGPR seed treatment increased watermelon shoot fresh and root dry weights.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- treatment of watermelon seeds with these isolatese0
- Interactor
- isolatese0symbiont
- Outcome
- fresh weight of shoots and the root dry weightse0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“treatment of watermelon seeds with these isolates significantly increased the fresh weight of shoots and the root dry weights in watermelon plants.”
Title
Emel Ünlü; Semih Yilmaz; Halit Yetişir; et al. Discover Agriculture 2024. doi:10.1007/s44279-024-00125-z
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation The study selected 24 of 56 potential PGPR isolates for multiple growth-promoting traits.
- Observation The selected isolates belonged to seven named bacterial genera.
- Observation The isolates had sequence variation in 16S rRNA genes.
- Observation All selected isolates showed nitrogen fixation ability.
- Observation The selected isolates carried genes for five growth-promoting functions at different frequencies.
- Intervention effect PGPR treatment improved tomato height, stem diameter, leaf area, shoot dry weight and root fresh weight.
- Intervention effect PGPR treatment improved watermelon height, stem diameter, leaf area, shoot dry weight and root fresh weight.