Claim · model-written summary
Silene acaulis seedlings grown in foreign soil inocula had significantly greater biomass or shoot length than seedlings grown in home soil inocula.
Verbatim
t0“Silene acaulis”
t1“foreign microbial community”
e1“Seedlings growing in foreign soil inocula showed significantly greater biomass or shoot length compared to growth in home soil inocula”
Title
Conor V. Meade; Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita; Steven K. Schmidt; et al. Plant Ecology & Diversity 2020. doi:10.1080/17550874.2020.1860149
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation Root microbiomes of Silene seedlings were overall convergent with each other compared with the source soil inocula.
- Intervention effect Silene seedlings growing in foreign soil inocula showed significantly lower filtering of fungal taxa from the soil than seedlings in home soil inocula.
- Mechanism Foreign plant ecotypes from distant habitats may experience competitively beneficial effects when growing in local soil communities.
