Abstract
The use of microbial inoculation may increase nodulation and seed yield of annual legumes. A study was conducted to determine the effect of formulations (seedapplied powder vs. soil-applied granular inoculants), placement of granular inoculants in soils (applied in the seed-row vs. sidebanded), and low rates of fertilizers in comparison to P-solubilizing microbes Penicillium bilaii on plant establishment, maturity, and seed yield of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) in the semiarid Canadian prairies. Green lentil was grown on a silt loam and a heavy clay soil in southwestern Saskatchewan from 1999 to 2002. Inoculated lentil with Rhizobium increased seed yield by 45% averaged across all 6 site-years. Granular soil inoculants increased lentil seed yield by 19% over seed-applied inoculants. Placement of soil inoculants in the seed row or side-bands produced similar results. On the silt loam soil, the use of rhizobial inoculants increased lentil seed yield by 15%, while the yield increase was 70% on the heavy clay. Starter N applied at a rate of 15 kg ha -1 increased seed yield by 13% for lentil grown on the heavy clay, but there was no effect on the silt loam. Phosphorus fertilizer applied at a rate 15 kg P ha -1 did not influence lentil establishment, growth or seed yield. Similarly, the P-solubilizing microbes P. bilaii did not influence plant growth or development, nor did it affect the seed yield of lentil. Soil granular rhizobial inoculants are preferred over seed-applied inoculants, fertilizers, or P-solubilizing microbes in lentil because of their strong and consistently positive impact on plant growth and seed yield in the semiarid Canadian prairies. Key words: Lens culinaris, nodulation, seed yield, Penicillium bilaii, P-solubilizing microbes
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 10
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizobium inoculation raised lentil seed yield by 45% over six site-years.
- Taxon
- lentil
Lens culinarise0 - Treatment
- Inoculated lentil with Rhizobiume0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 45%e0
RhizobiumNot reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Inoculated lentil with Rhizobium increased seed yield by 45% averaged across all 6 site-years.”
Claim · model-written summary
Granular soil inoculants raised yield by 19% over seed-applied inoculants.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Treatment
- Granular soil inoculantse0
- Outcome
- lentil seed yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 19%e0
- Comparator
- seed-applied inoculantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Granular soil inoculants increased lentil seed yield by 19% over seed-applied inoculants.”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed-row and side-band placement of inoculants had similar results.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarist0
- Treatment
- seed rowe0
- Outcome
- similar resultse0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- side-bandse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Placement of soil inoculants in the seed row or side-bands produced similar results.”
t0“lentil”
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizobial inoculants raised yield by 15% on silt loam.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Treatment
- rhizobial inoculantse0
- Outcome
- lentil seed yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 15%e0
- Setting
- silt loam soile0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“On the silt loam soil, the use of rhizobial inoculants increased lentil seed yield by 15%”
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizobial inoculants raised yield by 70% on heavy clay.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarist0
- Treatment
- rhizobial inoculantse1
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 70%e0
- Setting
- heavy claye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the yield increase was 70% on the heavy clay.”
t0“lentil”
e1“On the silt loam soil, the use of rhizobial inoculants increased lentil seed yield by 15%”
Claim · model-written summary
Starter nitrogen raised lentil yield by 13% on heavy clay.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Treatment
- Starter N applied at a rate of 15 kg ha -1e0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 13%e0
- Setting
- heavy claye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Starter N applied at a rate of 15 kg ha -1 increased seed yield by 13% for lentil grown on the heavy clay”
Claim · model-written summary
Starter nitrogen had no effect on silt loam.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarist0
- Treatment
- Starter Ne2
- Outcome
- seed yielde1
- Direction
- no effecte0
- Setting
- silt loame0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but there was no effect on the silt loam.”
t0“lentil”
e1“Starter N applied at a rate of 15 kg ha -1 increased seed yield by 13% for lentil grown on the heavy clay”
e2“Starter N applied at a rate of 15 kg ha -1 increased seed yield by 13% for lentil grown on the heavy clay”
Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorus fertilizer did not influence lentil establishment, growth or yield.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Treatment
- Phosphorus fertilizer applied at a rate 15 kg P ha -1e0
- Outcome
- lentil establishment, growth or seed yielde0
- Direction
- did not influencee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Phosphorus fertilizer applied at a rate 15 kg P ha -1 did not influence lentil establishment, growth or seed yield.”
Claim · model-written summary
P. bilaii did not influence lentil growth, development or seed yield.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Treatment
- P-solubilizing microbes P. bilaiie0
- Interactor
- P. bilaiie0symbiont
- Outcome
- plant growth or development, nor did it affect the seed yield of lentile0
- Direction
- did not influencee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the P-solubilizing microbes P. bilaii did not influence plant growth or development, nor did it affect the seed yield of lentil.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors prefer granular rhizobial inoculants for lentil production.
- Taxon
- lentilLens culinarise0
- Outcome
- Soil granular rhizobial inoculants are preferred over seed-applied inoculants, fertilizers, or P-solubilizing microbese0
- Setting
- semiarid Canadian prairiese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Soil granular rhizobial inoculants are preferred over seed-applied inoculants, fertilizers, or P-solubilizing microbes in lentil because of their strong and consistently positive impact on plant growth and seed yield in the semiarid Canadian prairies.”
The same questions in other papers
Rhizobium · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Results agree
39 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
36 papers more in this group
See all 40 papers →inoculation · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Results differ
64 papers in the same direction as this paper · 4 in the opposite direction
- no effect
- positive
- positive
65 papers more in this group
See all 69 papers →fertilization · yield · Lens culinaris (lentil)Results differ
12 papers in the same direction as this paper · 86 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- positive
95 papers more in this group
See all 99 papers →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.