Abstract
Finger millet is a very important crop because of its resilience against adverse climatic conditions. It is well adapted to higher elevations, drought tolerant, disease resistant and able to grow on marginal lands with poor soil fertility, which reflects in having highest productivity among millets. Also, it is a good source of protein, fat, and minerals. All these factors make it suitable especially among the segment of low- income group populations. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are capable of reducing the adverse effects of drought on plants. Recently, there is a growing interest in the Finger millet-AMF symbiosis in relation to enhancing water uptake, growth, plant nutritional status and yield. However, to our knowledge, there is no study performed related to the application of native mycorrhizal population in improving drought tolerance of finger millet. Native mycorrhiza inoculation resulted enhanced biomass production compared to than non-mycorrhizal finger millet plants, irrespective of soil water status. In addition, AMF inoculation led to significantly higher nutrient and biochemical status of plants. Our results support the idea of exploiting native mycorrhizal population in improving the drought tolerance of finger millet plants.
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Claim · model-written summary
Native mycorrhizal inoculation enhanced finger millet biomass versus non-mycorrhizal plants regardless of soil water status.
- Taxon
- finger millet
Eleusine coracanae0 - Treatment
- Native mycorrhiza inoculatione0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- biomass productione0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Qualifier
- irrespective of soil water statuse0
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal finger millet plantse0
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e0“Native mycorrhiza inoculation resulted enhanced biomass production compared to than non-mycorrhizal finger millet plants, irrespective of soil water status.”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation significantly increased finger millet nutrient and biochemical status.
- Taxon
- finger milletEleusine coracanae1
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe2symbiont
- Outcome
- nutrient and biochemical statuse0
- Direction
- highere0
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Verbatim
e0“AMF inoculation led to significantly higher nutrient and biochemical status of plants.”
e1“improving the drought tolerance of finger millet”
e2“Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors support exploiting native mycorrhizal populations to improve finger millet drought tolerance.
- Taxon
- finger milletEleusine coracanae0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizal populatione0symbiont
- Outcome
- exploiting native mycorrhizal population in improving the drought tolerancee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Our results support the idea of exploiting native mycorrhizal population in improving the drought tolerance of finger millet plants.”
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