Abstract
Drought and salinity are environmental factors capable of adversely affecting plant growth and productivity.Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) has been utilised in ameliorating several environmental conditions capable of limiting plants productivity.This study assessed the enhancement of cassava tolerance to both salinity and drought using AMF.A factorial experiment was conducted at the screen house of the Department of Botany University of Ibadan where three levels of salinity (0 mM, 80 mM and 100 mM, and four levels of water regime (1 daily, 2/wk, 1/wk, and 1 (2wks) and 50 grams of crude inoculum of AMF and 0g as control were applied to the cassava plant to monitor its morphological and agronomic responses for the period of three months.The results from the morphological and agronomic data showed that at higher levels of salinity, the interactive effect of salinity and drought was significant (at p<0.001) on growth parameters such as plant height, the total number of leaves and number of leaves produced per week.The shoot and root dry and fresh weights of cassava, as well as tuber initiation, was also affected at high drought and salinity.The effect of AMF (at p<0.05) significantly improved plant height, total number of leaves and shoot dry weight while parameters such as leaf area, the total number of leaves, number of leaves produced, number of leaves dropped, and tuber initiated were insignificantly improved.
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Claim · model-written summary
At high salinity, the interaction of salinity and drought significantly affected cassava plant height, leaf number and weekly leaf production.
- Taxon
- cassava
Manihot esculentae1 - Treatment
- salinity and droughte0
- Outcome
- plant height, the total number of leaves and number of leaves produced per weeke0
- Qualifier
- at higher levels of salinitye0
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Verbatim
e0“at higher levels of salinity, the interactive effect of salinity and drought was significant (at p<0.001) on growth parameters such as plant height, the total number of leaves and number of leaves produced per week.”
e1“cassava plant”
Claim · model-written summary
High drought and salinity affected cassava shoot and root weights and tuber initiation.
- Taxon
- cassavaManihot esculentae0
- Treatment
- high drought and salinitye0
- Outcome
- shoot and root dry and fresh weightse0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
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Verbatim
e0“The shoot and root dry and fresh weights of cassava, as well as tuber initiation, was also affected at high drought and salinity.”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF significantly improved cassava plant height, total leaf number and shoot dry weight.
- Taxon
- cassavaManihot esculentae1
- Treatment
- AMFe0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- plant height, total number of leaves and shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of AMF (at p<0.05) significantly improved plant height, total number of leaves and shoot dry weight”
e1“cassava plant”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF insignificantly improved leaf area, leaf counts, dropped leaves and tuber initiation in cassava.
- Taxon
- cassavaManihot esculentae2
- Treatment
- AMFe1
- Interactor
- AMFe1symbiont
- Outcome
- leaf area, the total number of leaves, number of leaves producede0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“parameters such as leaf area, the total number of leaves, number of leaves produced, number of leaves dropped, and tuber initiated were insignificantly improved.”
e1“The effect of AMF”
e2“cassava plant”
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