Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Rhizobial inoculation promoted alfalfa growth.

A claim from The Impact of Glyphosate-Contaminated Soil on the Growth of Alfalfa · 2025

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Rhizobial inoculation promoted alfalfa growth.

Taxon
alfalfaMedicago sativae0
Treatment
Inoculating rhizobiae0
Interactor
rhizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
growth of alfalfae0
Direction
promotese0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Medicago sativa
Medicago sativa · TaxonDrepanostoma · CC BY 4.0 · iNaturalist ↗

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“Inoculating rhizobia promotes the growth of alfalfa”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 484–535

Title

The Impact of Glyphosate-Contaminated Soil on the Growth of Alfalfa

Bo Cheng; Xiumin Tian; Zhengwen Yue; et al. E3S Web of Conferences 2025. doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202563002023

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inoculation · growth · Medicago sativa (alfalfa)Positive and negative results

137 papers: 121 positive, 16 negative or no effect

120 papers in the same direction as this claim · 15 in the opposite direction · 1 reporting no difference from an alternative

  1. no effect
    Inoculation did not significantly increase alfalfa shoot dry weight or nitrogen content.

    Growth of Alfalfa in Sludge‐Amended Soils and Inoculated with Rhizobia Produced in Sludge · 2002

    Opposite direction

  2. no effect
    Inoculation did not affect ruminal degradability of dry matter, crude protein and neutral detergent fiber of alfalfa silage.

    Effects of inoculation of high dry matter alfalfa silage on ensiling characteristics, ruminal nutrient degradability and dairy cow performance · 2004

    Opposite direction

  3. no effect
    Rhizobium inoculation alone did not elicit an alfalfa growth response.

    Dual Inoculation with an Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus andRhizobiumto Facilitate the Growth of Alfalfa on Coal Mine Substrates · 2009

    Opposite direction

  4. negative
    Plants without inoculation in Lanark soil yielded significantly less growth than inoculated plants.

    Variation in Preference for Rhizobium meliloti Within and Between Medicago sativa Cultivars Grown in Soil · 1984 · compared with those receiving inoculation

    Opposite direction

  5. no effect
    Dry matter intake by steers was not affected by moisture level or inoculant treatment.

    Effects of microbial inoculant and moisture content on preservation and quality of round baled alfalfa · 1995

    Opposite direction

  6. negative
    Omethoate with inoculant significantly reduced dry matter at 4 weeks in lucerne.

    Using omethoate insecticide and legume inoculant on seed · 1991

    Opposite direction

  7. negative
    Alfalfa shoot growth was retarded in seedlings grown in pasteurized or raw soils amended with culture-grown inocula.

    Seedling and Rootlet Diseases of Forage Alfalfa Caused byPythium irregulare · 1991

    Opposite direction

  8. negative
    Alfalfa growth was suppressed at all inoculum levels of P. penetrans and F. oxysporum.

    Suppression of Alfalfa Growth by Concommitant Populations of Pratylenchus penetrans and two Fusarium species. · 1982

    Opposite direction

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