Claim · model-written summary
Plant performance was better after wet or dry preplant conditions than after a wet/dry cycle.
- Taxon
- wheat and tomato plants
Solanum lycopersicum
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- pre-planting soil moisture conditions were wet or drye0
- Outcome
- plant performancee0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- a wet/dry cyclee0
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Verbatim
e0“plant performance was better where pre-planting soil moisture conditions were wet or dry, and worse where they involved a wet/dry cycle”
t0“plant biomass, nutrition and formation of mycorrhizas”
e1“wheat and tomato plants were grown in compost amended or un-amended soil”
Title
H. T. T. Ngo; T. R. Cavagnaro Scientific Reports 2018. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18780-2
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Compost strongly influenced plant-available phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Preplant moisture did not influence plant-available phosphorus.
- Intervention effect Compost and preplant moisture affected mineral nitrogen pools in complex ways.
- Association Changes in nutrient availability affected plant biomass, nutrient uptake and arbuscular mycorrhiza formation.
- Intervention effect Compost lowered mycorrhizal colonisation.