Claim · model-written summary
Bacterial inoculation significantly raised iron levels in wheat kernels by 70% compared with un-inoculated plants.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Organ / stage
- kernelse1
- Treatment
- Bacterial inoculatione1
- Outcome
- iron (Fe) levelse1
- Direction
- enhancede1
- Value
- 70%e1
- Comparator
- un-inoculated plantse1
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Verbatim
e1“Bacterial inoculation significantly enhanced Se concentration in wheat kernels (167%) and stems (252%), as well as iron (Fe) levels in kernels (70%) and stems (147%), compared to un-inoculated plants”
Title
Muhammad Yasin; Ali Farag El-Mehdawi; Aneela Anwar; et al. International Journal of Phytoremediation 2014. doi:10.1080/15226514.2014.922920
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The bacterium YAM2, with 99% similarity to Bacillus pichinotyi, showed many plant growth promoting characteristics.
- Intervention effect Wheat inoculated with YAM2 had significantly higher dry weight, shoot length and spike length than un-inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Selenate-treated, un-inoculated wheat had significantly higher dry weight and shoot length than control plants without Se.
- Intervention effect Bacterial inoculation significantly raised Se concentration in wheat kernels by 167% compared with un-inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Bacterial inoculation significantly raised Se concentration in wheat stems by 252% compared with un-inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Bacterial inoculation significantly raised iron levels in wheat stems by 147% compared with un-inoculated plants.
- Intervention effect Inoculated, Se-treated wheat plants showed a significant increase in acid phosphatase activity.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that inoculation with Bacillus sp. YAM2 is a promising Se biofortification strategy for wheat.