Abstract
Abstract This study investigated the effects of seaweed extract (SWE) made from the brown algae Durvillaea potatorum and Ascophyllum nodosum on plants and soil. The application of SWE to soil growing tomato plants showed dual effects. SWE comprehensively improved tomato plant growth (flower clusters, flower number, fruit number, root length, root and shoot dry weight, SPAD) and increased plant productivity (yield and quality). Similarly, SWE application effected soil biology at the soil root zone by increasing total bacterial count and available soil nitrogen and impacting bacterial community diversity with an increase in certain bacterial families linked to soil health. A broader understanding of the effects of SWE on the plant-soil ecosystem may offer breakthrough approaches for sustainable food production.
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Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract improved tomato flower clusters, flower number, and fruit number.
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- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- flower clusters, flower number, fruit numbere0
- Direction
- improvede0
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE comprehensively improved tomato plant growth (flower clusters, flower number, fruit number, root length, root and shoot dry weight, SPAD)”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract improved tomato root length and root and shoot dry weight.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- root length, root and shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- improvede0
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE comprehensively improved tomato plant growth (flower clusters, flower number, fruit number, root length, root and shoot dry weight, SPAD)”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract improved tomato SPAD.
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- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- SPADe0
- Direction
- improvede0
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE comprehensively improved tomato plant growth (flower clusters, flower number, fruit number, root length, root and shoot dry weight, SPAD)”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract increased tomato yield and quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- plant productivity (yield and quality)e1
- Direction
- increasede1
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE application effected soil biology at the soil root zone”
e1“increased plant productivity (yield and quality)”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract increased root-zone total bacterial count.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- total bacterial counte0
- Direction
- increasinge0
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE application effected soil biology at the soil root zone by increasing total bacterial count”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract increased available soil nitrogen.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- available soil nitrogene0
- Direction
- increasinge0
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t0“tomato”
e0“SWE application effected soil biology at the soil root zone by increasing total bacterial count and available soil nitrogen”
Claim · model-written summary
Seaweed extract changed bacterial community diversity and increased certain soil-health-associated families.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- SWEe0
- Outcome
- bacterial community diversitye0
- Qualifier
- increase in certain bacterial families linked to soil healthe0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“tomato”
e0“SWE application effected soil biology at the soil root zone by increasing total bacterial count and available soil nitrogen and impacting bacterial community diversity with an increase in certain bacterial families linked to soil health”
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