Abstract
Implementation of proper management practices using biological approaches is important to maintain soil quality and cotton yield in sandy desert soils of Egypt. This experiment was conducted at the Agriculture Experimental farm, Kafer El-Sheikh governorate, Cotton Research Institute of Egypt during 2016–2017 seasons to study the effect of inoculation with bacterial strains of Bacillus circulance (BC) and Bacillus megatherium (BM) and their co-inoculation in combinations with 50% and 100% of recommended dose fertilization (RDF) on growth, yield, and fiber properties of Egyptian cotton Giza-94. Results showed that all important morphological attributes of cotton such as plant growth, number of fruit sympodial branches, number of bolls per plant, boll weight, lint cotton yield and fiber properties significantly increased with the increase rate of RDF, and inoculation of cotton seeds with the bacterial strains exerted additive effects. The highest increase of cotton yield was observed at the combined use of bacterial strains BC + BM with 50% RDF followed by BC + BM with 100% RDF treatment which attributed on the cotton yield increase by 33% and 15% compared to the respective control. The application of Bacillus strains as a biofertilizer could be an alternative option to reduce considerable amounts of chemical fertilizers input by enhancing nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and, thereby, improves cotton productivity.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Higher recommended fertilizer dose significantly increased cotton plant growth and fruiting traits, yield, and fiber properties.
- Taxon
- Egyptian cotton
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Gossypium barbadensee1 - Material
- Giza-94e1
- Treatment
- increase rate of RDFe0
- Outcome
- plant growth, number of fruit sympodial branches, number of bolls per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“plant growth, number of fruit sympodial branches, number of bolls per plant, boll weight, lint cotton yield and fiber properties significantly increased with the increase rate of RDF”
e1“Egyptian cotton Giza-94”
Claim · model-written summary
Higher fertilizer dose significantly increased boll weight, lint cotton yield, and fiber properties.
- Taxon
- Egyptian cottonGossypium barbadensee1
- Material
- Giza-94e1
- Treatment
- increase rate of RDFe0
- Outcome
- boll weight, lint cotton yield and fiber propertiese0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“plant growth, number of fruit sympodial branches, number of bolls per plant, boll weight, lint cotton yield and fiber properties significantly increased with the increase rate of RDF”
e1“Egyptian cotton Giza-94”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation with Bacillus circulance exerted additive effects on cotton traits.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- inoculation of cotton seeds with the bacterial strainse0
- Interactor
- Bacillus circulancee1symbiont
- Outcome
- additive effectse0
- Direction
- additive effectse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“inoculation of cotton seeds with the bacterial strains exerted additive effects.”
e1“Bacillus circulance (BC) and Bacillus megatherium (BM)”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation with Bacillus megatherium exerted additive effects on cotton traits.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- inoculation of cotton seeds with the bacterial strainse0
- Interactor
- Bacillus megatheriume1symbiont
- Outcome
- additive effectse0
- Direction
- additive effectse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“inoculation of cotton seeds with the bacterial strains exerted additive effects.”
e1“Bacillus circulance (BC) and Bacillus megatherium (BM)”
Claim · model-written summary
Co-inoculation with both Bacillus strains plus 50% RDF increased cotton yield by 33% versus the respective control.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- BC + BM with 50% RDFe0
- Interactor
- Bacillus circulancee1symbiont
- Second interactor
- Bacillus megatheriume1symbiont
- Outcome
- cotton yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 33%e0
- Comparator
- respective controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest increase of cotton yield was observed at the combined use of bacterial strains BC + BM with 50% RDF followed by BC + BM with 100% RDF treatment which attributed on the cotton yield increase by 33% and 15% compared to the respective control.”
e1“Bacillus circulance (BC) and Bacillus megatherium (BM)”
Claim · model-written summary
Co-inoculation with both Bacillus strains plus 100% RDF increased cotton yield by 15% versus the respective control.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- BC + BM with 100% RDFe0
- Interactor
- Bacillus circulancee1symbiont
- Second interactor
- Bacillus megatheriume1symbiont
- Outcome
- cotton yielde0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 15%e0
- Comparator
- respective controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest increase of cotton yield was observed at the combined use of bacterial strains BC + BM with 50% RDF followed by BC + BM with 100% RDF treatment which attributed on the cotton yield increase by 33% and 15% compared to the respective control.”
e1“Bacillus circulance (BC) and Bacillus megatherium (BM)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose Bacillus strains as biofertilizer to reduce fertilizer inputs and improve cotton productivity.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Outcome
- The application of Bacillus strains as a biofertilizere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The application of Bacillus strains as a biofertilizer could be an alternative option to reduce considerable amounts of chemical fertilizers input by enhancing nutrient use efficiency (NUE) and, thereby, improves cotton productivity.”
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