Claim · model-written summary
Ambrosia trifida leaf extract decreased germination and root growth across four bioassay plants.
- Taxon
- lettuce, radish, tomato, and cucumber
Cucumis sativus
Raphanus sativus
Solanum lycopersicum
Lactuca sativae0 - Treatment
- Ambrosia trifida leafancde0
- Interactor
- Ambrosia trifida
Ambrosia trifidae0other - Outcome
- germiiination and root growthe0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Ambrosia trifida leafancd Peltandra virginica leafancd petiole-extracts almost universally decreased germiiination and root growth of lettuce, radish, tomato, and cucumber.”
Title
Comparison of the Allelopathic Potential of Four Marsh Species
J. Bonasera; J. Lynch; M. A. Leck Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 1979. doi:10.2307/2484557
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Peltandra virginica leaf and petiole extracts decreased germination and root growth across four bioassay plants.
- Intervention effect Ambrosia stem extract inhibited growth but not germination.
- Intervention effect Bidens leaf extract was generally inhibitory.
- Intervention effect Bidens stem extract inhibited lettuce germination and growth only.
- Intervention effect Typha leaf extract inhibited growth.
- Intervention effect Typha leaf extract inhibited radish germination at 24 hours.
- Observation Typha root and rhizome extracts were least inhibitory.
- Intervention effect Marsh soils had no effect on radish and cucumber germination.
- Intervention effect Cattail surface soil extract enhanced cucumber growth at 72 hours.
- Intervention effect Cattail surface soil extract enhanced radish growth at 48 hours.
- Observation Lettuce was most sensitive, radish and tomato intermediate, and cucumber least sensitive.