Intervention effectmodel-written summary

Most biocontrol seed treatments significantly increased stand, height and fresh weight.

A claim from Seed Treatment with a Fungal or a Bacterial Antagonist for Reducing Corn Damping-off Caused by Species of Pythium and Fusarium · 1997

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Most biocontrol seed treatments significantly increased stand, height and fresh weight.

Treatment
Seed treatments with most of the biocontrol agentse0
Outcome
seedling stand, plant height and fresh weighte0
Direction
increasede0
Qualifier
pathogen-infested soile0
Comparator
untreated seedse0

Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValue

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

Zea mays subsp. mays
Zea mays subsp. mays · TaxonDominicus Johannes Bergsma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Corn”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 68–72
e0

“Seed treatments with most of the biocontrol agents, as well as with the fungicide captan, significantly (P ≤ 0.05) increased seedling stand, plant height and fresh weight, and decreased root rot severity compared with untreated seeds in pathogen-infested soil.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 594–854

Title

Seed Treatment with a Fungal or a Bacterial Antagonist for Reducing Corn Damping-off Caused by Species of Pythium and Fusarium

W. Mao; J. A. Lewis; P. K. Hebbar; et al. Plant Disease 1997. doi:10.1094/pdis.1997.81.5.450

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biocontrol · growth · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

8 papers: 7 positive, 1 negative or no effect

6 papers in the same direction as this claim · 1 in the opposite direction

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seed treatment · growth · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results

267 papers: 239 positive, 28 negative or no effect

238 papers in the same direction as this claim · 28 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
  2. no effect
  3. no effect
  4. no effect
  5. no effect
  6. negative
  7. negative
  8. negative

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