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Microbial strategies enhance phytoremediation efficiency.

Taxon: phytoremediatione0
Outcome: phytoremediation efficiencye0

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“microbial strategies that enhance phytoremediation efficiency”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 569–630

Title

Advancement in microbes assisted phytoremediation of air pollutants

Rushi Patel; Kinjal Vasava; Yashrajsinh Zala; et al. Discover Environment 2025. doi:10.1007/s44274-025-00421-5

Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Nitrogen addition altered microbial communities and enhanced microbial carbon use efficiency toward carbon stabilization.

Taxon: plantt0
Outcome: microbial carbon use efficiencye0
Direction: enhancinge0
Qualifier: higher carbon stabilizatione0

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“altered microbial communities by enhancing microbial carbon use efficiency toward higher carbon stabilization”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 845–954

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“plant”
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Title

Nitrogen deposition enhances soil organic carbon sequestration through plant–soil–microbe synergies

Guoyong Yan; Xi Luo; Chao Liang; et al. Journal of Ecology 2025. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.70134

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Intervention effect Nitrogen addition significantly increased soil organic carbon.
Intervention effect Nitrogen addition enhanced plant nutrient uptake and photosynthetic capacity.
Mechanism Enhanced plant function led to increased plant carbon input.
Mechanism Nitrogen addition induced soil acidification through shifts in plant nitrogen preferences.
Mechanism Soil acidification suppressed decomposition.

Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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The authors interpret greater soil microbial diversity as promoting maize N efficiency.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Interactor: soil microbiale0symbiont
Outcome: N efficiencye0
Qualifier: increased soil microbial diversitye0

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“increased soil microbial diversity promoted N efficiency in maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1380–1445

Title

Polyaspartic Acid Urea Increased Maize Yield by Enhancing Leaf N Turnover Efficiency and Soil Microbial Diversity

Pengtao Ji; Yujuan Peng; Xiangling Li; et al. Agronomy 2024. doi:10.3390/agronomy14040796

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Intervention effect N240 produced one of the highest seed yields.
Intervention effect PASP180 produced one of the highest seed yields.
Intervention effect PASP180 had significantly higher N-partial factor productivity than other treatments.
Intervention effect PASP significantly increased maize seed yield.
Mechanism The authors attribute PASP-related yield gain to potential greater nitrogen storage in ear leaves.
Association Partial N productivity correlated positively with soil microbial Shannon, Chao1 and ACE indices.
Mechanism The authors attribute PASP-associated seed yield increase to leaf N-converting enzyme activity and soil microbial diversity.
Intervention effect PASP produced higher nitrate reductase, glutamate synthase and glutaminase activities in maize leaves than other fertilizers.
Intervention effect PASP significantly enhanced soil microbial diversity across maize stages.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Microbial inoculants improved maize phosphorus acquisition efficiency.

Outcome: P acquisition efficiencye0
Direction: improvede0

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“consequently improved P acquisition efficiency”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 600–646

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“maize”
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Microbial consortium increases maize productivity and reduces grain phosphorus concentration under field conditions

Inês Pacheco; Rodolfo Ferreira; Patrícia Correia; et al. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 2020. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.09.053

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Intervention effect Microbial inoculants increased maize phosphorus uptake by 14–60%.
Intervention effect PSB inoculation produced about 50% more maize biomass per unit phosphorus taken up.
Intervention effect AMF+PSB inoculation produced about 50% more maize biomass per unit phosphorus taken up.
Intervention effect Combined AMF and PSB inoculation gave the best productivity.
Intervention effect Combined AMF and PSB inoculation gave the best phosphorus use efficiency.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculants altered phosphorus allocation within maize plants.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculants reduced maize grain phosphorus concentration.
Intervention effect The microbial consortium increased maize productivity in the field.
Intervention effect The microbial consortium improved maize phosphorus use efficiency in the field.
Observation The microbial inoculants were compatible with conventional agricultural management.

Associationauthor interpretationreview summarypositivebasis n/a

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Plant-microbial symbiosis increases crop productivity, nutrient use efficiency and plant health.

Taxon: crope2
Treatment: Plant-microbial symbiosise2
Outcome: crop productivity, nutrient use efficiency, and plant healthe2
Direction: increasese2

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“Plant-microbial symbiosis increases crop productivity, nutrient use efficiency, and plant health”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1392–1488

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Plant-microbial symbiosis: Molecular insights and applications in sustainable agriculture

Gopal Wasudeo Narkhede; G. Harish Kumar; Manchikatla Arun Kumar; et al. Current Plant Biology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.cpb.2026.100587

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Observation The Common Symbiosis Signaling Pathway is essential and conserved among diverse plant species.

Mechanismauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Positive microbial associations enhanced community carbon use efficiency.

Outcome: community carbon use efficiencye0
Direction: enhancee0
Qualifier: positive associations within the rhizosphere soil microbial communitye1

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“These associations, in turn, enhance community carbon use efficiency.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 756–825

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“positive associations within the rhizosphere soil microbial community”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 648–717

Title

Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils

Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta; Seraina L. Cappelli; Rashmi Shrestha; et al. Nature Communications 2024. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-52449-5

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Intervention effect Increasing plant diversity strengthened positive relative to negative rhizosphere microbial associations.
Recommendation Increasing agricultural plant diversity can be used to enhance soil carbon retention potential.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Sorghum mulch was associated with lower soil microbial efficiency.

Taxon: soybeanGlycine maxe1
Treatment: sorghum mulche0
Outcome: microbial efficiencye0
Direction: lowere0

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“Soil under sorghum mulch provided lower microbial efficiency”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1440–1500

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“Cover crops”
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“The use of cover crops promotes higher soybean yield”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1287–1339

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Cover crops as modifying agents of microbiological soil attribute

Catia Aparecida Simon; Sebastião Ferreira de Lima; Meire Silvestrini Cordeiro; et al. Australian Journal of Crop Science 2019. doi:10.21475/ajcs.19.13.10.p1723

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Intervention effect Cover crops increased soybean yield.
Association Soil microbial activity and efficiency varied with cover crop type.
Observation U. ruziziensis residues persisted for less time on soil.
Recommendation The authors suggest U. brizantha may be the most suitable cover plant for improving soil attributes.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded enhanced photochemical efficiency.

Taxon: Sunflower CultivarsHelianthus annuust0
Treatment: microbial inoculatione1
Outcome: photochemical efficiencye0
Direction: enhancede0

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“Sunflower Cultivars”
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“enhanced photochemical efficiency”
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“microbial inoculation”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1487–1508

Title

Scrutinizes the Sustainable Role of Halophilic Microbial Strains on Oxygen-Evolving Complex, Specific Energy Fluxes, Energy Flow and Nitrogen Assimilation of Sunflower Cultivars in a Suboptimal Environment

Fiza Ali; Xiangying Wei; Zamin Shaheed Siddiqui; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2022. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.913825

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Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded higher photosystem II (PSII) activity.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded lesser photo-inhibition.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded increased performance of oxygen-evolving complex.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded High potassium (K + ).
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded low sodium (Na + ) ions.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded smooth electron transport.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded lesser energy dissipation.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded increased activity of nitrite reductase (NiR) and nitrate reductase (NR).
Intervention effect Microbial inoculation under salt stress yielded elevated nitrogen availability.

Intervention effectauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Microbial fertilizer could enhance light utilization efficiency of grape leaves.

Taxon: grapee5
Treatment: microbial fertilizere5
Outcome: light utilization efficiencye5
Direction: enhancee5

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“This indicates antimicrobial fertilizer could enhance light utilization efficiency of grape leaves”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 579–677

Title

Effects of Microbial Fertilizer on the Soil Ecosystem and Chlorophyll Fluorescence Characteristics of Grape Leaves

Zhang ChaoXuan Tianjin Agricultural Sciences 2011

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Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer increased soil bacteria, fungi and actinomyces.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer improved soil fertility.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer reduced soil bulk density.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer increased the cation exchange capacity of the soil.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer increased soil available phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium content.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer increased chlorophyll fluorescence dynamics parameters of grape leaves.
Intervention effect Microbial fertilizer decreased non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in grape leaves.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

The microbial consortium improved maize phosphorus use efficiency in the field.

Taxon: maizeZea mayse0
Treatment: microbial consortium (AMF+PSB)e0
Outcome: P use efficiencye0
Direction: improvede0

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“the microbial consortium (AMF+PSB) increased maize productivity, and at the same time improved P use efficiency.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1145–1257

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“maize”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 31–36

Title

Microbial consortium increases maize productivity and reduces grain phosphorus concentration under field conditions

Inês Pacheco; Rodolfo Ferreira; Patrícia Correia; et al. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences 2020. doi:10.1016/j.sjbs.2020.09.053

Other claims from this paper (10)

Intervention effect Microbial inoculants increased maize phosphorus uptake by 14–60%.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculants improved maize phosphorus acquisition efficiency.
Intervention effect PSB inoculation produced about 50% more maize biomass per unit phosphorus taken up.
Intervention effect AMF+PSB inoculation produced about 50% more maize biomass per unit phosphorus taken up.
Intervention effect Combined AMF and PSB inoculation gave the best productivity.
Intervention effect Combined AMF and PSB inoculation gave the best phosphorus use efficiency.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculants altered phosphorus allocation within maize plants.
Intervention effect Microbial inoculants reduced maize grain phosphorus concentration.
Intervention effect The microbial consortium increased maize productivity in the field.
Observation The microbial inoculants were compatible with conventional agricultural management.

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