Claim · model-written summary
Canavalia rosea hyperaccumulated more sodium with plant age.
- Taxon
- Canavalia Rosea
Canavalia roseat0
- Outcome
- sodiume1
- Direction
- moree1
- Qualifier
- with agee1
Verbatim
t0“Canavalia Rosea”
e1“Canavalia rosea hyperaccumulated more sodium (Na + ) with age significantly decreasing soil Na + concentrations from 271.870 to 51.573 µmol Na g -1 post- C. rosea harvesting”
Title
Mitigating Soil Sodicity in Irrigated Sugarcane Plantations with Canavalia Rosea: A Pot Experiment
Nonkululeko Sithole; Maria A Pérez-Fernández; Anathi Magadlela Journal of soil science and plant nutrition 2025. doi:10.1007/s42729-025-02312-3
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Growing Canavalia rosea in sodic sugarcane soil significantly decreased soil Na+ concentrations from 271.870 to 51.573 µmol Na g-1.
- Intervention effect Growing Canavalia rosea significantly reduced soil EC, SAR and ESP after three months, and these stayed statistically similar to month seven.
- Observation Pseudomonas putida and Bacillus species were isolated from Canavalia rosea plants.
- Mechanism The isolated bacteria likely assisted Canavalia rosea in sodium tolerance and nutrient availability.
- Observation Flavobacterium species increased in abundance in the rhizosphere soils of Canavalia rosea.
- Mechanism The increase in Flavobacterium abundance is attributed to Canavalia rosea reducing soil Na⁺ concentrations.
- Intervention effect Consecutive cultivation of Canavalia rosea reduced sodium concentration by five-folds and improved soil characteristics in sugarcane soils from Sikhwahlane, Mpumalanga.
- Recommendation Field studies of Canavalia rosea in irrigated sugarcane plantations are recommended.