Claim · model-written summary
EBW-4 drench increased shoot growth for four years.
- Taxon
- apple trees
Malus domesticae7 - Treatment
- postplanting drench application of strain EBW-4 of Bacillus subtilis alonee0
- Interactor
- Bacillus subtilis
Bacillus subtilise0biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- total shoot growthe0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Qualifier
- for 4 yearse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The postplanting drench application of strain EBW-4 of Bacillus subtilis alone was consistently effective in increasing cross-sectional trunk area for 5 years, total shoot growth for 4 years”
e7“McIntosh apple trees on M.26 rootstock”
Title
R. S. Utkhede; E. M. Smith Canadian Journal of Microbiology 1992. doi:10.1139/m92-209
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect EBW-4 drench increased trunk area for five years.
- Intervention effect EBW-4 drench increased fruit yield for three years.
- Intervention effect EBW-4 combined with formalin promoted total shoot growth and trunk area.
- Intervention effect Formalin alone increased shoot growth for two years.
- Intervention effect Formalin alone increased trunk area for one year.
- Intervention effect Formalin alone did not increase fruit yield over three years.
- Recommendation Authors identify EBW-4 as having potential for biological control of replant disease in orchards.