Abstract
Abstract. A field experiment was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of a combined treatment, involving addition of Aspergillus niger ‐treated sugar beet (SB) residue in the presence of rock phosphate and mycorrhizal inoculation of seedlings with Pisolithus tinctorius . The aim was to improve the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of a degraded semiarid Mediterranean soil. Short‐term effects of such improvements on the establishment of Cistus albidus L. seedlings were evaluated. Eight months after planting, macronutrients (NPK), total carbohydrates, water‐soluble C, water‐soluble carbohydrates, microbial biomass C and enzyme activities (dehydrogenase, urease, protease, acid phosphatase and β‐glucosidase) measured in the rhizosphere soil of C. albidus were increased greatly by addition of fermented SB residue. Soil structural stability improved only with the fermented SB addition (about 79% higher in the amended soils than in the non‐amended soils). The mycorrhizal inoculation was the most effective treatment in improving the growth of C. albidus plants, but only slightly improved soil quality. Growth of inoculated plants was about 33% greater than plants grown in the amended soil and about 131% greater than control plants. The combined benefit of mycorrhizal inoculation of seedlings and addition of fermented SB residue to soil on plant growth was similar to that of the treatments applied individually.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Fermented sugar beet residue increased rhizosphere macronutrients, carbohydrates, and soluble carbon.
- Taxon
- C. albidus
Cistus albiduse0 - Treatment
- addition of fermented SB residuee0
- Outcome
- macronutrients (NPK), total carbohydrates, water‐soluble Ce0
- Direction
- increased greatlye0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“macronutrients (NPK), total carbohydrates, water‐soluble C, water‐soluble carbohydrates, microbial biomass C and enzyme activities (dehydrogenase, urease, protease, acid phosphatase and β‐glucosidase) measured in the rhizosphere soil of C. albidus were increased greatly by addition of fermented SB residue”
Claim · model-written summary
Fermented residue increased rhizosphere soluble carbohydrates and microbial biomass carbon.
- Taxon
- C. albidusCistus albiduse0
- Treatment
- addition of fermented SB residuee0
- Outcome
- water‐soluble carbohydrates, microbial biomass Ce0
- Direction
- increased greatlye0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“macronutrients (NPK), total carbohydrates, water‐soluble C, water‐soluble carbohydrates, microbial biomass C and enzyme activities (dehydrogenase, urease, protease, acid phosphatase and β‐glucosidase) measured in the rhizosphere soil of C. albidus were increased greatly by addition of fermented SB residue”
Claim · model-written summary
Fermented residue increased rhizosphere enzyme activities.
- Taxon
- C. albidusCistus albiduse0
- Treatment
- addition of fermented SB residuee0
- Outcome
- enzyme activitiese0
- Direction
- increased greatlye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“enzyme activities (dehydrogenase, urease, protease, acid phosphatase and β‐glucosidase) measured in the rhizosphere soil of C. albidus were increased greatly by addition of fermented SB residue”
Claim · model-written summary
Fermented residue improved soil structural stability by about 79% against unamended soil.
- Taxon
- Cistus albidus L.Cistus albidust0
- Treatment
- fermented SB additione0
- Outcome
- Soil structural stabilitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Value
- about 79%e0
- Comparator
- non‐amended soilse0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil structural stability improved only with the fermented SB addition (about 79% higher in the amended soils than in the non‐amended soils).”
t0“Cistus albidus L. seedlings”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal inoculation was the most effective treatment for Cistus growth.
- Taxon
- C. albidusCistus albiduse0
- Treatment
- mycorrhizal inoculatione0
- Interactor
- Pisolithus tinctorius
Pisolithus tinctoriuse1symbiont - Outcome
- growth of C. albidus plantse0
- Direction
- improvinge0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The mycorrhizal inoculation was the most effective treatment in improving the growth of C. albidus plants”
e1“Pisolithus tinctorius”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal inoculation only slightly improved soil quality.
- Taxon
- C. albidusCistus albiduse0
- Treatment
- mycorrhizal inoculatione0
- Outcome
- soil qualitye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Qualifier
- only slightlye0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal inoculation was the most effective treatment in improving the growth of C. albidus plants, but only slightly improved soil quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculated plant growth was about 33% greater than in amended soil.
- Taxon
- Cistus albidus L.Cistus albidust0
- Treatment
- inoculated plantse0
- Outcome
- Growthe0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- about 33%e0
- Comparator
- plants grown in the amended soile0
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Verbatim
e0“Growth of inoculated plants was about 33% greater than plants grown in the amended soil”
t0“Cistus albidus L. seedlings”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculated plant growth was about 131% greater than control plants.
- Taxon
- Cistus albidus L.Cistus albidust0
- Treatment
- inoculated plantse0
- Outcome
- Growthe0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Value
- about 131%e0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Growth of inoculated plants was about 33% greater than plants grown in the amended soil and about 131% greater than control plants.”
t0“Cistus albidus L. seedlings”
Claim · model-written summary
Combining inoculation and residue addition gave growth benefit similar to either individually.
- Taxon
- Cistus albidus L.Cistus albidust0
- Treatment
- mycorrhizal inoculation of seedlings and addition of fermented SB residuee0
- Outcome
- plant growthe0
- Direction
- similare0
- Comparator
- treatments applied individuallye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The combined benefit of mycorrhizal inoculation of seedlings and addition of fermented SB residue to soil on plant growth was similar to that of the treatments applied individually.”
t0“Cistus albidus L. seedlings”
The same questions in other papers
inoculation · growth · Cistus albidusPositive and negative results
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- negative
- positive
mycorrhiza · growth · Cistus albidusResults agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- negative
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