Paper · 2025 · Oil Crop Science

ARC microbial inoculants promote peanut growth and yield while suppressing Aspergillus flavus infection

Gege Zhang; Ruinan Yang; Xiaodi Ma; et al.

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Abstract

Peanuts are important oilseed legume crops that are susceptible to contamination by Aspergillus flavus in soil, leading to serious economic losses. Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts. However, the impact of ARC microbial inoculants on different resistant varieties of A . flavus remains unclear. In this study, we screened peanut varieties that were resistant and susceptible to A. flavus and evaluated their nodulation ability and growth performance after ARC microbial inoculants treatment in the field. The results demonstrated that the nodule number and nitrogenase activity of both varieties significantly increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with the highly susceptible variety AH24 showing a greater increase. For photosynthetic parameters, both varieties also increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, but the increase was greater in the moderately resistant variety AH1 than in the highly susceptible variety AH24. Finally, we found that the yield and yield-related traits of the moderately resistant variety AH1 were better than those of the highly susceptible variety AH24. After ARC microbial inoculants treatment, the yield traits of both peanut varieties still increased significantly, but the degree of increase of the moderately resistant variety AH1 was smaller than that of the highly susceptible variety AH24. In addition, the abundance of A. flavus in the rhizosphere soil of the two varieties significantly decreased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with no significant difference between the varieties. These results indicated that ARC microbial inoculants exert differential effects on the nodulation and growth of different resistant peanut varieties and have a better effect on highly susceptible varieties. These results provide a solid theoretical basis for the efficient use of ARC microbial inoculants in the field of peanuts in the future.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

ARC inoculants significantly increased nodule number and nitrogenase activity of peanut varieties in the field

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Treatment
ARC microbial inoculantse2
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
nodule number and nitrogenase activitye2
Direction
increasede2
Setting
in the fielde1

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

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“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e1

“we screened peanut varieties that were resistant and susceptible to A. flavus and evaluated their nodulation ability and growth performance after ARC microbial inoculants treatment in the field”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 479–672 · show in text ↑
e2

“the nodule number and nitrogenase activity of both varieties significantly increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with the highly susceptible variety AH24 showing a greater increase”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The highly susceptible peanut variety AH24 showed a greater increase in nodule number and nitrogenase activity under ARC inoculants

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Material
AH24e2
Treatment
ARC microbial inoculantse2
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
nodule number and nitrogenase activitye2
Direction
greater increasee2

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e2

“the nodule number and nitrogenase activity of both varieties significantly increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with the highly susceptible variety AH24 showing a greater increase”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 704–898 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

ARC inoculants increased photosynthetic parameters of both peanut varieties

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Treatment
ARC microbial inoculantse3
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
photosynthetic parameterse3
Direction
increasede3

Not reportedComparator

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

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e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e3

“For photosynthetic parameters, both varieties also increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, but the increase was greater in the moderately resistant variety AH1 than in the highly susceptible variety AH24”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The increase in photosynthetic parameters under ARC inoculants was greater in AH1 than in AH24

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Material
AH1e3
Treatment
ARC microbial inoculantse3
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
photosynthetic parameterse3
Direction
greatere3
Comparator
AH24e3

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e3

“For photosynthetic parameters, both varieties also increased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, but the increase was greater in the moderately resistant variety AH1 than in the highly susceptible variety AH24”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 900–1115 · show in text ↑
Associationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Peanut variety AH1 had better yield and yield-related traits than AH24

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Material
AH1e4
Outcome
yield and yield-related traitse4
Direction
bettere4
Comparator
AH24e4

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e4

“the yield and yield-related traits of the moderately resistant variety AH1 were better than those of the highly susceptible variety AH24”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1140–1276 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

ARC inoculants significantly increased yield traits of both peanut varieties

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Treatment
microbial inoculantse0
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
yield traitse5
Direction
increasede5

Not reportedComparator

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e5

“the yield traits of both peanut varieties still increased significantly, but the degree of increase of the moderately resistant variety AH1 was smaller than that of the highly susceptible variety AH24”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1320–1520 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The yield-trait increase under ARC inoculants was smaller in AH1 than in AH24

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Material
AH1e5
Treatment
microbial inoculantse0
Interactor
Rihizobiae0symbiont
Outcome
degree of increasee5
Direction
smallere5
Comparator
AH24e5

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e5

“the yield traits of both peanut varieties still increased significantly, but the degree of increase of the moderately resistant variety AH1 was smaller than that of the highly susceptible variety AH24”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1320–1520 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

ARC inoculants significantly decreased A. flavus abundance in rhizosphere soil of peanut

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Organ / stage
rhizosphere soile6
Treatment
ARC microbial inoculantse6
Interactor
A. flavusAspergillus flavuse6pathogen
Outcome
abundance of A. flavuse6
Direction
decreasede6

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗
Aspergillus flavus
Aspergillus flavus · InteractorUS gov · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e6

“the abundance of A. flavus in the rhizosphere soil of the two varieties significantly decreased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with no significant difference between the varieties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1535–1725 · show in text ↑
Associationobservedoriginal resultno effectnot significant (as stated)measured

Claim · model-written summary

A. flavus abundance under ARC inoculants did not differ between the two peanut varieties

Taxon
peanutsArachis hypogaeae0
Material
the two varietiese6
Interactor
A. flavusAspergillus flavuse6pathogen
Outcome
abundance of A. flavuse6
Direction
no_changeinferrede6

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

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea · Taxon葉子 · CC0 · iNaturalist ↗
Aspergillus flavus
Aspergillus flavus · InteractorUS gov · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

e0

“Previously, our research team developed the Aspergillus- Rihizobia coupling (ARC) microbial inoculants and found it can reduce A. flavus abundance in the soil and promote efficient nodulation in peanuts”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 148–350 · show in text ↑
e6

“the abundance of A. flavus in the rhizosphere soil of the two varieties significantly decreased after ARC microbial inoculants treatment, with no significant difference between the varieties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1535–1725 · show in text ↑

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