Abstract
Abstract The effects of vesicular‐arbuscular mycorrhizas (VAM) on the growth of Zea mays L. cv.s ‘PX610’ and ‘W415’, and Z. mays × robusta cv. ‘Yates Golden Cross Bantam’ (sweetcorn) were compared. Among the three cultivars there were highly significant differences in responsiveness to VAM as well as in root dry weight/total dry weight ratios, lamina P concentrations, and growth rate. In the absence of P, PX610 outgrew the other two cultivars and was well infected, but it failed to respond to VAM. In the non‐mycorrhizal state the superiority of PX610 over the other cultivars was attributed to its superior ability to produce roots and its low lamina P concentrations. VAM depressed the root dry weight/total dry weight ratio of PX610 but not of sweetcorn or W415.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
The three cultivars differed significantly in responsiveness to mycorrhizas.
- Material
- three cultivarse0
- Interactor
- VAMe0symbiont
- Outcome
- responsiveness to VAMe0
- Direction
- differencese0
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e0“Among the three cultivars there were highly significant differences in responsiveness to VAM”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The cultivars differed significantly in root to total dry weight ratio, lamina P concentration and growth rate.
- Outcome
- root dry weight/total dry weight ratios, lamina P concentrations, and growth ratee0
- Direction
- differencese0
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e0“highly significant differences in responsiveness to VAM as well as in root dry weight/total dry weight ratios, lamina P concentrations, and growth rate”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
PX610 outgrew the other cultivars without P.
- Material
- PX610e0
- Outcome
- outgrewe0
- Direction
- outgrewe0
- Qualifier
- absence of Pe0
- Comparator
- other two cultivarse0
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e0“In the absence of P, PX610 outgrew the other two cultivars”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
PX610 was well infected by VAM without P.
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e0“In the absence of P, PX610 outgrew the other two cultivars and was well infected”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
PX610 failed to respond to VAM.
- Material
- PX610t1
- Treatment
- VAMe0
- Interactor
- VAMe0symbiont
- Outcome
- respond to VAMe0
- Direction
- failed to responde0
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e0“it failed to respond to VAM”
t0“maize”
t1“of P, PX610 outgrew”
Claim · model-written summary
Without mycorrhizas, PX610 superiority was attributed to root production and low lamina P.
- Material
- PX610e0
- Outcome
- superiority of PX610e0
- Qualifier
- superior ability to produce roots and its low lamina P concentrationse0
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Verbatim
e0“In the non‐mycorrhizal state the superiority of PX610 over the other cultivars was attributed to its superior ability to produce roots and its low lamina P concentrations”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
VAM depressed root to total dry weight ratio in PX610.
- Material
- PX610e0
- Treatment
- VAMe0
- Interactor
- VAMe0symbiont
- Outcome
- root dry weight/total dry weight ratioe0
- Direction
- depressede0
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e0“VAM depressed the root dry weight/total dry weight ratio of PX610”
t0“maize”
Claim · model-written summary
VAM did not depress root to total dry weight ratio in sweetcorn or W415.
- Material
- sweetcorn or W415e0
- Treatment
- VAMe0
- Interactor
- VAMe0symbiont
- Outcome
- root dry weight/total dry weight ratioe0
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“VAM depressed the root dry weight/total dry weight ratio of PX610 but not of sweetcorn or W415”
t0“maize”
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