Abstract
Abstract Transplant media as a means for the introduction of biological agents is currently being investigated in a variety of crops. This study aimed to investigate the impact of microbial inoculation in micropropagated banana plantlets to enhance their resistance against Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV). Virus indexed micropropagated plantlets of banana were subjected to root colonization followed by foliar spraying with bacterial strains Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf1, CHA0 and Bacillus subtilis EPB22 during primary and secondary hardening stage in the nursery, at the time of repotting and 3 months after planting in the pot. Microbe inoculated plantlets showed enhanced PR proteins and defense enzymes besides reducing banana bunchy top disease incidence under glasshouse condition. The results indicated the effective use of beneficial microbes in reducing the disease incidence of BBTV in tissue culture banana plantlets. In addition, the molecular characterization of endophytes isolated from banana plantlets, using SDS-PAGE and RAPD-PCR revealed that endophytes were categorized into two distinct groups. These results emphasize the significance of microorganisms in protection of young plantlets from transplanting stresses in field. Further, the use of beneficial microorganisms instead of chemicals sustains an ecological niche in the agricultural ecosystem.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Microbe inoculation of banana plantlets enhanced PR proteins and defence enzymes.
- Taxon
- bananae1
- Treatment
- root colonization followed by foliar spraying with bacterial strainse1
- Interactor
- Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf1
.JPG?width=60)
Pseudomonas fluorescense1symbiont - Outcome
- PR proteins and defense enzymese2
- Direction
- enhancede2
- Setting
- glasshouse conditione2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
.JPG?width=500)
Verbatim
e1“micropropagated plantlets of banana were subjected to root colonization followed by foliar spraying with bacterial strains Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf1, CHA0 and Bacillus subtilis EPB22”
e2“Microbe inoculated plantlets showed enhanced PR proteins and defense enzymes besides reducing banana bunchy top disease incidence under glasshouse condition”
Claim · model-written summary
Microbe inoculation reduced banana bunchy top disease incidence in banana plantlets under glasshouse conditions.
- Taxon
- bananae2
- Treatment
- Microbe inoculatede2
- Interactor
- Banana bunchy top virus
Banana bunchy top viruse3pathogen - Outcome
- banana bunchy top disease incidencee2
- Direction
- reducinge2
- Setting
- glasshouse conditione2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“Microbe inoculated plantlets showed enhanced PR proteins and defense enzymes besides reducing banana bunchy top disease incidence under glasshouse condition”
e3“enhance their resistance against Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV)”
Claim · model-written summary
Endophytes isolated from banana plantlets were categorized into two distinct groups by SDS-PAGE and RAPD-PCR.
Verbatim
e4“endophytes isolated from banana plantlets, using SDS-PAGE and RAPD-PCR revealed that endophytes were categorized into two distinct groups”
The same questions in other papers
inoculation · Banana bunchy top virus · MusaPositive and negative results
2 in the opposite direction
- negative
- negative
inoculation · Pseudomonas fluorescens · MusaResults agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.