Abstract
The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi on root colonization, growth, essential oil content and composition and nutrient acquisition of basil (Ocimum basilicum) was investigated as complete randomized design with 4 treatments and 4 replications. Fungi inoculation treatments consisted: Gf (Glomus fasciculatum), Ge (Glomus etuonicatum), Gi (Glomus intraradices), and NM (non-mycorrhizal). The results showed mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants. The effect of AM fungi inoculation on the root colonization, growth parameters and yield of basil are more pronounced with G. fasciculatum than other AM fungi. The G. fasciculatum inoculation significantly increased essential oil content and yield. Analysis of essential oil by GC and GC/MS showed that linalool formed the highest relative abundance of the main compounds in leaf essential oils of basil and methyl chavicol profile was considerably increased with AM fungi inoculation. Increased essential oil percent of AM fungi plants was correlated with root fungal colonization (r = 0.997**) and leaf P content (r = 0.994**). It is concluded that G. fasciculatum was more effective than other species, which may indicate effective symbiotic potential of this strain with basil roots. © 2010 Academic Journals.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal basil had significantly greater shoot and root dry weight, leaf area and plant height than uninoculated basil.
- Taxon
- basil
Ocimum basilicume1 - Treatment
- mycorrhizale0
- Outcome
- shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant heighte0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal basil had significantly more lateral branches than uninoculated basil.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- mycorrhizale0
- Outcome
- numbers of lateral branchese0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal basil had higher N, P and K concentrations than uninoculated basil.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- mycorrhizale0
- Outcome
- N, P, Ke0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal basil had higher Ca, Fe and Cu concentrations than uninoculated basil.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- mycorrhizale0
- Outcome
- Ca, Fe, Cue0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal basil had higher Mn concentration than uninoculated basil.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- mycorrhizale0
- Outcome
- Mn concentratione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-inoculated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“mycorrhizal plants significantly had higher shoot and root dry weight, leaf area, plant height, numbers of lateral branches, as well as N, P, K, Ca, Fe, Cu and Mn concentration compared to non-inoculated plants”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
G. fasciculatum had more pronounced effects on basil root colonization, growth and yield than other AM fungi.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume0
- Treatment
- G. fasciculatume0
- Interactor
- G. fasciculatumRhizophagus fasciculatuse0symbiont
- Outcome
- root colonization, growth parameters and yielde0
- Direction
- more pronouncede0
- Comparator
- other AM fungie0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of AM fungi inoculation on the root colonization, growth parameters and yield of basil are more pronounced with G. fasciculatum than other AM fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
G. fasciculatum inoculation significantly increased basil essential oil content and yield.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- G. fasciculatum inoculatione0
- Interactor
- G. fasciculatumRhizophagus fasciculatuse0symbiont
- Outcome
- essential oil content and yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The G. fasciculatum inoculation significantly increased essential oil content and yield”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Linalool had the highest relative abundance among basil leaf essential oil compounds.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume0
- Organ / stage
- leafe0
- Outcome
- linalool formed the highest relative abundancee0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“linalool formed the highest relative abundance of the main compounds in leaf essential oils of basil”
Claim · model-written summary
AM fungi inoculation considerably increased basil methyl chavicol profile.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- AM fungi inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AM fungiGlomeromycotae0symbiont
- Outcome
- methyl chavicol profilee0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“methyl chavicol profile was considerably increased with AM fungi inoculation”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Essential oil percentage in mycorrhizal basil correlated positively with root fungal colonization (r = 0.997**).
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Organ / stage
- roote0
- Outcome
- essential oil percente0
- Direction
- Increasede0
- Value
- r = 0.997**e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Increased essential oil percent of AM fungi plants was correlated with root fungal colonization (r = 0.997**)”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
Claim · model-written summary
Essential oil percentage in mycorrhizal basil correlated positively with leaf P content (r = 0.994**).
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Organ / stage
- leafe0
- Outcome
- essential oil percente0
- Direction
- Increasede0
- Value
- r = 0.994**e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Increased essential oil percent of AM fungi plants was correlated with root fungal colonization (r = 0.997**) and leaf P content (r = 0.994**)”
e1“basil (Ocimum basilicum)”
The same questions in other papers
Rhizophagus fasciculatus · quality: oil · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results agree
1 paper in the same direction as this paper
- positive
mycorrhiza · growth · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results differ
13 papers in the same direction as this paper · 1 in the opposite direction
- negative
- positive
- positive
11 papers more in this group
See all 15 papers →mycorrhiza · Glomeromycota · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results agree
3 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
inoculation · Glomeromycota · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results agree
3 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
mycorrhiza · nutrient: content · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results agree
6 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
3 papers more in this group
See all 7 papers →inoculation · quality: oil · Ocimum basilicum (basil)Results agree
7 papers in the same direction as this paper
- positive
- positive
- positive
4 papers more in this group
See all 8 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.