Paper · 2025 · Plants

Soil Amendment-Mediated Herbivory Resistance, Crop Improvement, and Phytoremediation in Canola: Physiological Defense Mechanism and Health Risk Assessment

Muhammad Wajid Javed; Mansoor ul Hasan; Muhammad Sagheer; et al.

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Abstract

A two-year field study was conducted using canola to check the efficacy of different soil amendment treatments (SAT), i.e., with elemental sulfur (ES), bio-sulfur (BS), and compost (Cp) mixtures against insecticide-treated (Carbosulfan) and untreated controls regarding aphid populations. The results of the experiment revealed that ES treatments significantly reduced aphid abundance, followed by Cp and ES+Cp. However, BS improved aphid herbivory. The number of siliques, seeds, thousand-seed weight, and yield were improved with a trend of ES+Cp > Cp > BS+Cp. Similarly, physiological mechanisms revealed the regulation of nutrient and phenolic contents in canola with ES improving sulfur, BS nitrogen, Cp, and ES+Cp calcium, and BS+Cp enhancing phosphorus, potassium, iron, and zinc. Furthermore, RP-HPCL indicated that ferulic acid was highest in insecticide-treated plot. Similarly, Cp improved quercetin and gallic acid; ES+Cp caffeic, chlorogenic, m-coumaric, and sinapic acid; and BS+Cp enhances syringic, vanillic, ferulic, p-coumaric, and cinnamic acid. The analysis regarding health risk assessment revealed among different SAT, ES+Cp significantly reduced the Hazardous Quotient (HQ) of Cu and Zn. However, further research is still needed to explore SAT's potential to remediate other heavy metal stresses with possible implications for pest management in different field crops.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Elemental sulfur significantly reduced aphid abundance.

Treatment
ESe0
Interactor
aphide0pest
Outcome
aphid abundancee0
Direction
reducede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES treatments significantly reduced aphid abundance”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Compost reduced aphid abundance after elemental sulfur in the reported ranking.

Treatment
Cpe0
Interactor
aphide0pest
Outcome
aphid abundancee0
Direction
reducede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES treatments significantly reduced aphid abundance, followed by Cp and ES+Cp”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Elemental sulfur plus compost reduced aphid abundance after compost in the reported ranking.

Treatment
ES+Cpe0
Interactor
aphide0pest
Outcome
aphid abundancee0
Direction
reducede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES treatments significantly reduced aphid abundance, followed by Cp and ES+Cp”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Bio-sulfur increased aphid herbivory.

Treatment
BSe0
Interactor
aphide0pest
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aphid herbivorye0
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improvede0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“BS improved aphid herbivory”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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The amendment ranking for improved silique number, seed number, thousand-seed weight and yield was ES+Cp > Cp > BS+Cp.

Treatment
ES+Cpe0
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number of siliques, seeds, thousand-seed weight, and yielde0
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improvede0
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Cpe0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“The number of siliques, seeds, thousand-seed weight, and yield were improved with a trend of ES+Cp > Cp > BS+Cp”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Elemental sulfur improved sulfur content.

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ESe0
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sulfure0
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improvinge0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES improving sulfur”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Bio-sulfur improved nitrogen content.

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BSe0
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nitrogene0
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increaseinferrede0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“BS nitrogen”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Compost improved calcium content.

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Cpe0
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calciume0
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increaseinferrede0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Cp, and ES+Cp calcium”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Elemental sulfur plus compost improved calcium content.

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ES+Cpe0
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calciume0
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increaseinferrede0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Cp, and ES+Cp calcium”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Bio-sulfur plus compost enhanced phosphorus, potassium, iron and zinc contents.

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phosphorus, potassium, iron, and zince0
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enhancinge0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“BS+Cp enhancing phosphorus, potassium, iron, and zinc”

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“Canola”

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Observationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Ferulic acid was highest in the insecticide-treated plot.

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ferulic acide0
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higheste0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ferulic acid was highest in insecticide-treated plot”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Compost improved quercetin and gallic acid.

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Cpe0
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quercetin and gallic acide0
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improvede0

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Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Cp improved quercetin and gallic acid”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Elemental sulfur plus compost improved caffeic, chlorogenic, m-coumaric and sinapic acid.

Treatment
ES+Cpe0
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caffeic, chlorogenic, m-coumaric, and sinapic acide0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES+Cp caffeic, chlorogenic, m-coumaric, and sinapic acid”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Bio-sulfur plus compost enhanced syringic, vanillic and ferulic acid.

Treatment
BS+Cpe0
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syringic, vanillic, ferulice0
Direction
enhancese0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“BS+Cp enhances syringic, vanillic, ferulic, p-coumaric, and cinnamic acid”

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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Bio-sulfur plus compost enhanced p-coumaric and cinnamic acid.

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BS+Cpe0
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p-coumaric, and cinnamic acide0
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enhancese0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“BS+Cp enhances syringic, vanillic, ferulic, p-coumaric, and cinnamic acid”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 990–1063 · show in text ↑
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“Canola”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

Elemental sulfur plus compost significantly reduced the hazardous quotient of copper and zinc.

Treatment
ES+Cpe0
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Hazardous Quotient (HQ) of Cu and Zne0
Direction
reducede0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Brassica napus var. napus
Brassica napus var. napus · Taxoncontri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“ES+Cp significantly reduced the Hazardous Quotient (HQ) of Cu and Zn”

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“Canola”

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elemental sulfur · yield · Brassica napus (oilseed rape)Results differ

7 papers: 6 positive, 1 negative or no effect

5 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction

  1. no effect
  2. positive
  3. positive

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elemental sulfur · molecular: metabolites · Brassica napus (oilseed rape)Positive and negative results

2 papers: 1 positive, 1 negative or no effect

1 in the opposite direction

  1. negative
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elemental sulfur · nutrient: content · Brassica napus (oilseed rape)Results agree

2 papers: 2 positive, 0 negative or no effect

1 paper in the same direction as this paper

  1. positive
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