Claim · model-written summary
AM fungi increased pea water-use efficiency by 12–35%.
- Taxon
- pea
Lathyrus oleraceuse0 - Treatment
- AM fungie0
- Interactor
- AM fungiGlomeromycotae0symbiont
- Outcome
- water-use-efficiencye0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Value
- 12–35%e0
- Comparator
- non–AM fungi counterpartse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“AM fungi enhanced water-use-efficiency in okra (5–17%) and pea (12–35%) over non–AM fungi counterparts.”
Title
Anil Kumar; Anil Kumar Choudhary; V. K. Suri Journal of Plant Nutrition 2015. doi:10.1080/01904167.2015.1087030
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased relative leaf water content in okra by 3% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased relative leaf water content in pea by 3% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased pea xylem water potential by 27% versus non-AM fungi counterparts.
- Intervention effect AM fungi increased okra water-use efficiency by 5–17%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi improved soil water holding capacity by 5–6%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi improved mean weight diameter of soil particles by 4–9%.
- Intervention effect AM fungi had nominal or no effect on bulk density.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants maintained higher tissue water content than non-mycorrhizal plants under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants had greater drought resistance under moisture stress.
- Intervention effect The authors inferred that integrated AM fungi and phosphorus improved crop productivity in the okra–pea sequence.