Abstract
The effects of the seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum extracts (ANE) on nitrogen (N)–fixing nodules and growth of alfalfa plants were studied under greenhouse conditions. The treatment of alfalfa roots increased the number of total nodules per plant with ANE (69%) and organic sub-fractions methanol (20%) and chloroform (35%) at 1 g L−1 concentration. The number of functional nodules was greater per plant in ANE (36%) and its organic sub-fraction chloroform (105%). Maximum increase in shoot length was observed in ANE-treated plants (42%) and chloroform-treated plants (42%). Root length was longer in the chloroform fraction (15%), whereas the shoot dry-weight accumulation was greater in plants treated with ANE (118%), methanol (85%), and chloroform (85%) than the control. Root dry-weight accumulation increased in plants treated with ANE (118%) and chloroform (69%) compared to the control. Further studies are under way to identify the chemical components in ANE and organic fractions.
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Claims 13
Claim · model-written summary
ANE increased total nodules per alfalfa plant by 69%.
- Taxon
- alfalfa
Medicago sativae0 - Treatment
- ANEe0
- Outcome
- number of total nodules per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 69%e0
- Qualifier
- 1 g L−1 concentratione0
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Verbatim
e0“The treatment of alfalfa roots increased the number of total nodules per plant with ANE (69%) and organic sub-fractions methanol (20%) and chloroform (35%) at 1 g L−1 concentration”
Claim · model-written summary
Methanol subfraction increased total nodules per alfalfa plant by 20%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- methanole0
- Outcome
- number of total nodules per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 20%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The treatment of alfalfa roots increased the number of total nodules per plant with ANE (69%) and organic sub-fractions methanol (20%) and chloroform (35%) at 1 g L−1 concentration”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform subfraction increased total nodules per alfalfa plant by 35%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae0
- Treatment
- chloroforme0
- Outcome
- number of total nodules per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 35%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The treatment of alfalfa roots increased the number of total nodules per plant with ANE (69%) and organic sub-fractions methanol (20%) and chloroform (35%) at 1 g L−1 concentration”
Claim · model-written summary
ANE increased functional nodules per alfalfa plant by 36%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- ANEe0
- Outcome
- number of functional nodulese0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 36%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The number of functional nodules was greater per plant in ANE (36%) and its organic sub-fraction chloroform (105%)”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform subfraction increased functional nodules per alfalfa plant by 105%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- chloroforme0
- Outcome
- number of functional nodulese0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 105%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The number of functional nodules was greater per plant in ANE (36%) and its organic sub-fraction chloroform (105%)”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ANE increased alfalfa shoot length by 42%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- ANE-treatede0
- Outcome
- shoot lengthe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 42%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Maximum increase in shoot length was observed in ANE-treated plants (42%) and chloroform-treated plants (42%)”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform fraction increased alfalfa shoot length by 42%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- chloroform-treatede0
- Outcome
- shoot lengthe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 42%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Maximum increase in shoot length was observed in ANE-treated plants (42%) and chloroform-treated plants (42%)”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform fraction increased alfalfa root length by 15%.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- chloroform fractione0
- Outcome
- Root lengthe0
- Direction
- longere0
- Value
- 15%e0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Root length was longer in the chloroform fraction (15%)”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ANE increased alfalfa shoot dry weight by 118% relative to control.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- ANEe0
- Outcome
- shoot dry-weight accumulatione0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 118%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
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Verbatim
e0“shoot dry-weight accumulation was greater in plants treated with ANE (118%), methanol (85%), and chloroform (85%) than the control”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Methanol fraction increased alfalfa shoot dry weight by 85% relative to control.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- methanole0
- Outcome
- shoot dry-weight accumulatione0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 85%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“shoot dry-weight accumulation was greater in plants treated with ANE (118%), methanol (85%), and chloroform (85%) than the control”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform fraction increased alfalfa shoot dry weight by 85% relative to control.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- chloroforme0
- Outcome
- shoot dry-weight accumulatione0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- 85%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“shoot dry-weight accumulation was greater in plants treated with ANE (118%), methanol (85%), and chloroform (85%) than the control”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
ANE increased alfalfa root dry weight by 118% relative to control.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- ANEe0
- Outcome
- Root dry-weight accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 118%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Root dry-weight accumulation increased in plants treated with ANE (118%) and chloroform (69%) compared to the control”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Chloroform fraction increased alfalfa root dry weight by 69% relative to control.
- Taxon
- alfalfaMedicago sativae1
- Treatment
- chloroforme0
- Outcome
- Root dry-weight accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 69%e0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Root dry-weight accumulation increased in plants treated with ANE (118%) and chloroform (69%) compared to the control”
e1“growth of alfalfa plants”
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