Abstract
A screen house experiment was carried out to determine the effect of organic fertilizer, compost, inorganic fertilizer, and single super phosphate and Arbuscular mycorrhiza on damping-off disease of cowpea. The experimental design used was completely randomized design (CRD). There were fifteen treatments which were replicated three times. 2g of Macrophomina phaseolina (damping off disease) was infested on 10kg of soil sample in each pot with (30 by 75) cm spacing. Arbuscular mycorrhiza, compost (poultry based) and single super phosphate (SSP) were applied at the rate of 2250kg/ha, 1670kg/ha and 676kg/ha respectively. Three seeds of cowpea were sown into each pot, but later thinned into two plants per pot. Data on germination percentage at 7, 14, 21 and 28 days, number of leaves of cowpea at 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks after planting, weight of pods per plant, incidence and severity at which pathogens affected the cowpea plant per treatment and growth yield of each treatment were collected and analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and means separated using the Duncan multiple range test. The plants that were treated with 676kg/ha single super phosphate produced higher cumulative weight of harvested fruits per plant followed by Arbuscular mycorrhiza, which did not have any negative effect on environment. The values of phosphorus in the post harvest soil analysis revealed that lower values of phosphorus were recorded in Single Super Phosphate treated pots, while plants treated with Arbuscular mycorrhiza at 500kgha-1 produced higher P value than the pre-planting soil analysis indicating the absorption of large amount of the elements. It was therefore recommended that Arbuscular mycorrhiza could be used to optimize seed yield in cowpea.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea treated with 676 kg/ha single super phosphate produced higher cumulative weight of harvested fruits per plant.
- Taxon
- Cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- 676kg/ha single super phosphatee1
- Outcome
- cumulative weight of harvested fruits per plante1
- Direction
- highere1
- Setting
- screen housee0
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Verbatim
t0“Cowpea”
e0“A screen house experiment was carried out”
e1“The plants that were treated with 676kg/ha single super phosphate produced higher cumulative weight of harvested fruits per plant”
Claim · model-written summary
Cowpea treated with arbuscular mycorrhiza at 500 kg/ha had higher soil P value than the pre-planting soil analysis.
- Taxon
- CowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- Arbuscular mycorrhiza at 500kgha-1e2
- Interactor
- Arbuscular mycorrhizae2symbiont
- Outcome
- P valuee2
- Direction
- highere2
- Comparator
- pre-planting soil analysise2
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Verbatim
t0“Cowpea”
e2“plants treated with Arbuscular mycorrhiza at 500kgha-1 produced higher P value than the pre-planting soil analysis”
Claim · model-written summary
Single super phosphate treated pots had lower post-harvest soil phosphorus values.
- Taxon
- CowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- Single Super Phosphatee3
- Outcome
- values of phosphoruse3
- Direction
- lowere3
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Cowpea”
e3“The values of phosphorus in the post harvest soil analysis revealed that lower values of phosphorus were recorded in Single Super Phosphate treated pots”
Claim · model-written summary
Arbuscular mycorrhiza did not have any negative effect on the environment.
- Taxon
- CowpeaVigna unguiculatat0
- Treatment
- Arbuscular mycorrhizae4
- Outcome
- negative effect on environmente4
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Verbatim
t0“Cowpea”
e4“followed by Arbuscular mycorrhiza, which did not have any negative effect on environment”
Claim · model-written summary
Arbuscular mycorrhiza is recommended to optimize seed yield in cowpea.
- Taxon
- cowpeaVigna unguiculatae5
- Treatment
- Arbuscular mycorrhizae5
- Outcome
- optimize seed yielde5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Cowpea”
e5“It was therefore recommended that Arbuscular mycorrhiza could be used to optimize seed yield in cowpea”
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