Abstract
This study evaluated agronomic responses of indigenous rice landraces to seedling-mediated microbial biopriming in an inner-Terai agroecosystem of western Nepal. A triply replicated experiment in split-plot design comprised four main plots of microorganism treatments – pre-transplant root-dipping of seedlings with individual and combined inoculums of Trichoderma viride Pers. ex S.F. Gray and Pseudomonas flouresens Migula and unprimed control, and three subplots of rice landraces - Anadi, Simtharo and Tilki. Simtharo bioprimed with the duel microbial culture exhibited highest grain yield. Anadi and Tilki showed greater response to sole T. viride biopriming with 39% and 111% increase in seed yields respectively compared to their corresponding controls. The sole biopriming with P. fluorescens did not produce clear effect on growth and yield of any rice landraces. Simtharo, Anadi and Tilki with increasing maturity days, had mean grain yield of 2.68 t ha-1, 2.14 t ha-1 and Tilki 0.77 t ha-1 respectively. Later maturity was linked to higher grain sterility with strong negative correlation with grain yield (r = - 0.93, p < 0.01). Further studies should integrate the use of rice landraces of similar maturity class for comparative studies, and utilization of locally isolated microbial strains under organic direct seeding or system of rice intensification (SRI) in cropping systems approach.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Simtharo bioprimed with the dual microbial culture had the highest grain yield.
- Taxon
- Rice Landracest0
- Material
- Simtharoe1
- Treatment
- bioprimed with the duel microbial culturee1
- Interactor
- Trichoderma viride
Trichoderma viridee0symbiont - Second interactor
- Pseudomonas flouresense0symbiont
- Outcome
- grain yielde1
- Direction
- higheste1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e0“pre-transplant root-dipping of seedlings with individual and combined inoculums of Trichoderma viride Pers. ex S.F. Gray and Pseudomonas flouresens Migula and unprimed control”
e1“Simtharo bioprimed with the duel microbial culture exhibited highest grain yield”
Claim · model-written summary
Anadi showed a 39% increase in seed yield after sole Trichoderma viride biopriming, compared with its control.
- Taxon
- Rice Landracest0
- Material
- Anadie2
- Treatment
- sole T. viride biopriminge2
- Interactor
- T. viride
Trichoderma viridee2symbiont - Outcome
- seed yieldse2
- Direction
- increasee2
- Value
- 39%e2
- Comparator
- corresponding controlse2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e2“Anadi and Tilki showed greater response to sole T. viride biopriming with 39% and 111% increase in seed yields respectively compared to their corresponding controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Tilki showed a 111% increase in seed yield after sole Trichoderma viride biopriming, compared with its control.
- Taxon
- Rice Landracest0
- Material
- Tilkie2
- Treatment
- sole T. viride biopriminge2
- Interactor
- T. viride
Trichoderma viridee2symbiont - Outcome
- seed yieldse2
- Direction
- increasee2
- Value
- 111%e2
- Comparator
- corresponding controlse2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e2“Anadi and Tilki showed greater response to sole T. viride biopriming with 39% and 111% increase in seed yields respectively compared to their corresponding controls”
Claim · model-written summary
Sole Pseudomonas fluorescens biopriming had no clear effect on growth and yield of any rice landrace.
- Taxon
- Rice Landracest0
- Treatment
- sole biopriming with P. fluorescense3
- Interactor
- P. fluorescens
Pseudomonas fluorescense3symbiont
- Outcome
- growth and yielde3
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e3“The sole biopriming with P. fluorescens did not produce clear effect on growth and yield of any rice landraces”
Claim · model-written summary
Simtharo had a mean grain yield of 2.68 t/ha with increasing maturity days.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e4“Simtharo, Anadi and Tilki with increasing maturity days, had mean grain yield of 2.68 t ha-1, 2.14 t ha-1 and Tilki 0.77 t ha-1 respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Anadi had a mean grain yield of 2.14 t/ha with increasing maturity days.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e4“Simtharo, Anadi and Tilki with increasing maturity days, had mean grain yield of 2.68 t ha-1, 2.14 t ha-1 and Tilki 0.77 t ha-1 respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Tilki had a mean grain yield of 0.77 t/ha with increasing maturity days.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e4“Simtharo, Anadi and Tilki with increasing maturity days, had mean grain yield of 2.68 t ha-1, 2.14 t ha-1 and Tilki 0.77 t ha-1 respectively”
Claim · model-written summary
Later maturity was linked to higher grain sterility in rice landraces.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e5“Later maturity was linked to higher grain sterility with strong negative correlation with grain yield (r = - 0.93, p < 0.01)”
Claim · model-written summary
Grain sterility had a strong negative correlation with grain yield (r = -0.93).
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e5“Later maturity was linked to higher grain sterility with strong negative correlation with grain yield (r = - 0.93, p < 0.01)”
Claim · model-written summary
Further studies should use rice landraces of similar maturity class in comparative studies.
Verbatim
e6“Further studies should integrate the use of rice landraces of similar maturity class for comparative studies”
Claim · model-written summary
Locally isolated microbial strains should be used under organic direct seeding or system of rice intensification.
Verbatim
t0“Improves Crop Performance in Nepalese Rice Landraces”
e7“utilization of locally isolated microbial strains under organic direct seeding or system of rice intensification (SRI) in cropping systems approach”
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