Abstract
Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber, is a commercially significant fruit in arid and semi-arid regions of India due to its high returns, low input costs, and drought tolerance. However, delayed budding in ber rootstock seedlings often results in unbuddable plants, leading to resource wastage. This study aimed to enhance vegetative growth in ber rootstock under nursery conditions using gibberellic acid (GA3) and liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp. A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda, using a randomized complete block design with five treatments. Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control.Enhanced growth is attributed to increased nutrient availability and phytohormone production by inoculated bacteria. Although microbial counts in rhizospheric soil increased numerically in treated plants, the changes were statistically non-significant. The findings suggest that LBIs can effectively improve rootstock growth, making seedlings suitablefor timely budding and reducing wastage. Future studies should assess budding success and conduct biosafety evaluations of the microbial strains, alongside soil biofertilizer applications to improve long-term soil health and productivity
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Combined liquid bacterial inoculants significantly improve shoot number of ber seedlings compared with control (27.45%).
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritiana
Ziziphus mauritianae0 - Treatment
- combined LBIse1
- Interactor
- Sphingobacterium sp.
Sphingobacteriume2symbiont - Second interactor
- Azotobacter sp.
Azotobactere2symbiont - Outcome
- shoot numbere1
- Direction
- improvementse1
- Value
- 27.45%e1
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathindae3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e1“Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control”
e2“liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp.”
e3“A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined liquid bacterial inoculants significantly improve shoot length of ber seedlings compared with control (21.04%).
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Treatment
- combined LBIse1
- Interactor
- Sphingobacterium sp.Sphingobacteriume2symbiont
- Second interactor
- Azotobacter sp.Azotobactere2symbiont
- Outcome
- shoot lengthe1
- Direction
- improvementse1
- Value
- 21.04%e1
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathindae3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e1“Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control”
e2“liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp.”
e3“A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined liquid bacterial inoculants significantly improve collar diameter of ber seedlings compared with control (29.63%).
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Treatment
- combined LBIse1
- Interactor
- Sphingobacterium sp.Sphingobacteriume2symbiont
- Second interactor
- Azotobacter sp.Azotobactere2symbiont
- Outcome
- collar diametere1
- Direction
- improvementse1
- Value
- 29.63%e1
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathindae3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e1“Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control”
e2“liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp.”
e3“A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined liquid bacterial inoculants significantly improve root length of ber seedlings compared with control (17.65%).
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Treatment
- combined LBIse1
- Interactor
- Sphingobacterium sp.Sphingobacteriume2symbiont
- Second interactor
- Azotobacter sp.Azotobactere2symbiont
- Outcome
- root lengthe1
- Direction
- improvementse1
- Value
- 17.65%e1
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathindae3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e1“Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control”
e2“liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp.”
e3“A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined liquid bacterial inoculants significantly improve biomass accumulation of ber seedlings compared with control.
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Treatment
- combined LBIse1
- Interactor
- Sphingobacterium sp.Sphingobacteriume2symbiont
- Second interactor
- Azotobacter sp.Azotobactere2symbiont
- Outcome
- biomass accumulatione1
- Direction
- improvementse1
- Comparator
- controle1
- Setting
- PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathindae3
Not reportedValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e1“Seedlings treated with the combined LBIs showed significant improvements in shoot number (27.45%), shoot length (21.04%), collar diameter (29.63%), root length (17.65%), and biomass accumulation compared to control”
e2“liquid bacterial inoculants (LBIs) of Sphingobacterium sp. and Azotobacter sp.”
e3“A field experiment was conducted at PAU, Regional Research Station, Bathinda”
Claim · model-written summary
Enhanced ber seedling growth is attributed to increased nutrient availability and phytohormone production by the inoculated bacteria.
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Outcome
- Enhanced growthe4
- Qualifier
- increased nutrient availability and phytohormone productione4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e4“Enhanced growth is attributed to increased nutrient availability and phytohormone production by inoculated bacteria”
Claim · model-written summary
Microbial counts in rhizospheric soil of treated ber plants increased numerically but the change was not statistically significant.
- Taxon
- Zizyphus mauritianaZiziphus mauritianae0
- Treatment
- treated plantse5
- Outcome
- microbial counts in rhizospheric soile5
- Direction
- increased numericallye5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Indian jujube (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), commonly known as ber”
e5“Although microbial counts in rhizospheric soil increased numerically in treated plants, the changes were statistically non-significant”