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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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In pots ten strains promoted total root length and surface area.

Taxon: wheatTriticum aestivumt0
Outcome: total root length and total root surface areae0
Direction: promotede0

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“wheat”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 71–76

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“10 promoted the total root length and total root surface area”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 659–720

Title

Effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on root development in wheat

Bin Li Anhui Nongye Daxue xuebao 2015

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Intervention effect Nine PGPR strains significantly promoted root dry weight in semisolid culture.
Intervention effect In semisolid culture seven strains promoted root length.
Intervention effect In semisolid culture nine strains promoted root surface area.
Intervention effect In semisolid culture five strains increased root tip number.
Intervention effect In semisolid culture eight strains increased lateral root number and stem height.
Intervention effect In semisolid culture seven strains improved stem dry weight.
Intervention effect In pots ten strains significantly promoted root dry weight.
Intervention effect In pots six strains increased root tip number.
Intervention effect In pots eight strains increased lateral root number.
Intervention effect In pots nine strains promoted stem height.
Intervention effect In pots seven strains enhanced stem dry weight.
Observation Five strains had more than five significant growth parameters in both culture settings.
Observation Four of the five strong growth promoting strains were Pseudomonas spp.
Association Root length, surface area, tip number and lateral root number correlated significantly with root dry weight, stem height and stem dry weight.

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Root surface area and total root volume of wheat, and root surface area of faba bean, contributed most to crop P acquisition.

Taxon: wheatTriticum aestivume7
Organ / stage: root surface areae7
Outcome: P acquisitione7

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“root surface area and total volume of wheat and root surface area of faba bean had the greatest contribution to crop P acquisition”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1479–1609

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[Quantitative analysis of root morphology and phosphorus absorption in wheat and faba bean intercropping system.]

Wen-Lian Bai; Meng-Yao Zhang; Zhen-Yang Liu; et al. PubMed 2021. doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202104.027

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Intervention effect Wheat intercropped with faba bean had 21.2% higher root weight in the rhizo-box experiment.
Intervention effect Wheat intercropped with faba bean had 61.5% higher root-shoot ratio in the rhizo-box experiment.
Intervention effect Wheat intercropped with faba bean had 14.6% lower shoot weight in the rhizo-box experiment.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat had 23.8% higher root P content than monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat had 12.1% higher P uptake than monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped faba bean had higher shoot and root weight, root-shoot ratio, total root length and root volume than monocropped faba bean.
Intervention effect Intercropped faba bean had higher shoot and root P content and P acquisition than monocropped faba bean.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat P uptake decreased 8.7% at the tillering stage compared with monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat P acquisition increased 40.6% at the jointing stage compared with monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat P acquisition increased 19.7% at the heading stage compared with monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat P acquisition increased 7.8% at the filling stage compared with monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped wheat P acquisition increased 12.4% at the maturity stage compared with monocropped wheat.
Intervention effect Intercropped faba bean P acquisition decreased 9.8% at flowering compared with monocropped faba bean.
Intervention effect Intercropped faba bean P acquisition decreased 9.0% at podding compared with monocropped faba bean.
Intervention effect Intercropped faba bean P acquisition decreased 5.2% at maturity compared with monocropped faba bean.
Intervention effect Intercropping increased root volume and root surface area under low P stress.
Intervention effect Intercropping increased P acquisition under low P stress.
Mechanism Interspecific interaction in wheat and faba bean intercropping may amplify the root-soil interface and raise P uptake at seedling stage under low P stress.

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P-efficient genotypes had greater total root surface area, total root length and surface root length.

Taxon: genotypese0
Material: P-efficient genotypese0
Outcome: total root surface area, total root length, surface root lengthe0
Direction: greatere0
Comparator: P-inefficient genotypese0

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“Compared with P-inefficient genotypes, P-efficient genotypes had longer surface fine roots, and greater total root surface area, total root length, surface root length, and P concentration (partitioning index) in bolls.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 927–1146

Title

Genotypic differences in phosphorus acquisition efficiency and root performance of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) under low-phosphorus stress

Bolang Chen; Qinghui Wang; Heike Bücking; et al. Crop and Pasture Science 2019. doi:10.1071/cp18324

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Sorghum lines varied in total, very fine and fine root surface areas at low phosphorus.

Taxon: sorghumSorghumt0
Outcome: total root surface area, root surface area of very fine root, root surface area of fine roote0

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“sorghum”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 64–71

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“total root surface area, root surface area of very fine root, root surface area of fine root”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 943–1035

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Characterization of root morphology in contrasting genotypes of sorghum at low and high phosphorus level.

Mariella Camargo Rocha; Glauco Vieira Miranda; M. J. V. de Vasconcelos; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2010

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Image analysis reliably estimated total root surface area of intact peach seedlings.

Taxon: PeachPrunus persicat0
Organ / stage: roote0
Outcome: total root surface areae0

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“Peach Seedlings”
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“we reliably estimated total root surface area of intact each [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch.] seedlings”
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Measuring Root Surface Area and Mean Root Diameter of Peach Seedlings by Digital Image Analysis

M. Tagliavini; L.J. Veto; N.E. Looney HortScience 1993. doi:10.21273/hortsci.28.11.1129

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Method / resource Normalized intensity was used to estimate mean root diameter.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesignificant (as stated)measured

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Combined manure and urea significantly increased root surface area, specific root surface area and total root length relative to urea.

Taxon: Platycladus orientalisPlatycladus orientalise1
Treatment: CM+CF treatmente0
Outcome: root surface area,specific root surface area,total root lengthe0
Direction: increasede0
Comparator: CF treatmente0

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“compared with CF treatment,CM+CF treatment significantly increased the root surface area,specific root surface area,total root length”
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“rhizosphere soil of Platycladus orientalis”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 456–498

Title

Effect of Cattle Manure Co-applied with Inorganic Fertilizer on Microorganism Population and Enzyme Activtiy in the Rhizosphere Soil of Platycladus Orientalis

FU Hai-l Biological Disaster Science 2014

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Intervention effect Combined manure and urea significantly increased root tip number and activity relative to urea.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased root surface area by 110.01% against CK.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased root surface area by 59.27% against CF.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased root surface area by 28.54% against CM.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased rhizosphere microbial population.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased microbial biomass carbon by 62.22% over CF.
Intervention effect Combined treatment increased microbial biomass nitrogen by 45.35% over CF.
Observation Microbial diversity indices and populations varied similarly under CM and CM+CF but oppositely under CK and CF.
Intervention effect Combined treatment improved rhizosphere urease, catalase and polyphenol oxidase activity.
Intervention effect Combined treatment improved rhizosphere invertase activity.
Intervention effect Polyphenol oxidase activity had the largest increase under combined treatment.
Intervention effect Manure alone affected the rhizosphere less than combined treatment.

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Increased wheat density steadily decreased total root length and total root surface area of ryegrass.

Taxon: wheatTriticum aestivume0
Treatment: increased wheat densitye0
Interactor: ryegrassLoliume0weed
Outcome: total root length and total root surface area of ryegrasse0
Direction: decreasede0

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“The increased wheat density steadily decreased the total root length and total root surface area of ryegrass”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 294–402

Title

Effects of wheat crop density on growth of ryegrass

C. J. Li; Min An; Muhammad Saeed; et al. Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO) 2011

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativesignificant (as stated)measured

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Drought significantly reduced garlic root length, surface area, projection area and volume.

Taxon: garlicAllium sativume1
Treatment: drought stressese0
Outcome: total root length, total root surface area, root projection area and total root volumee0
Direction: reducede0

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“drought stresses significantly reduced total root length, total root surface area, root projection area and total root volume”
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“garlic under drought stress”
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Title

Pseudomonas sp. UW4 Enhances Drought Resistance in Garlic by Modulating Growth and Physiological Parameters

Yiwei Yan; Chunqian Guo; Bernard R. Glick; et al. Horticulturae 2025. doi:10.3390/horticulturae11101170

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Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced chlorophyll content.
Intervention effect Drought significantly reduced antioxidant enzyme activity and osmolyte content.
Intervention effect Drought increased electrical conductivity and MDA content.
Intervention effect UW4 inoculation improved the drought-affected parameters.
Intervention effect UW4 raised root total surface area by 87.06% under drought.
Intervention effect UW4 raised root projected area by 40.71% under drought.
Intervention effect UW4 significantly raised chlorophyll a by 83.63%.
Intervention effect UW4 significantly raised chlorophyll b by 217.33%.
Intervention effect UW4 significantly raised total chlorophyll by 100.02%.
Intervention effect Leaf osmolyte content significantly increased with UW4.
Intervention effect Root osmolyte content significantly decreased with UW4.
Intervention effect Antioxidant content significantly increased with UW4.
Intervention effect UW4 reduced leaf relative electrical conductivity by 23.18%.
Intervention effect UW4 reduced root relative electrical conductivity by 41.20%.
Intervention effect UW4 reduced leaf MDA content by 25.23%.
Intervention effect UW4 reduced root MDA content by 54.08%.
Association PCA grouped drought-tolerance factors into photosynthetic/root-growth and leaf-osmotic/root-antioxidant categories.
Association Mantel testing suggested a connection between root and leaf osmoregulation and antioxidant systems.
Association D-value evaluation ranked drought resistance of UW4-inoculated stressed garlic below UW4-inoculated normal garlic and above uninoculated normal garlic.

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Total root length, projective area, surface area and absorbable root length density differed significantly among resistance classes.

Material: resistance,tolerance and susceptible cultivarse0
Outcome: total root length,total projective area,total surface area and absorbable root length densitye0

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“There was significant difference in total root length,total projective area,total surface area and absorbable root length density among the resistance,tolerance and susceptible cultivars”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 482–668

Title

Relationship of tissue structure and resistance to Verticillium wilt in cotton

Qingyuan Guo Acta Phytopathologica Sinica 2011

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultnegativemeasured

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Root total surface area declined early in water stress.

Taxon: riceOryza sativae1
Treatment: water stresse0
Outcome: Root total surface areae0
Direction: declinede0

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“Root total surface area declined during the prophase of water stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 615–683

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“rice(Oryza sativa L.)”
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Title

Effects of Polyethylene Glycol Induced Water Stress on Root Growth of Rice

Xiaohong Chen Acta Agriculturae Boreali-Sinica 2009

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Intervention effect Five days of water stress increased root dry weight, diameter and active absorption surface area.
Intervention effect Five days of water stress decreased root fresh weight, relative water content and length.
Intervention effect PEG increased root active absorption surface area by an average of 6% and at most 47% versus control.
Intervention effect Root total surface area later exceeded control.
Intervention effect Root fractal dimension rose faster than control before falling markedly on day five.
Intervention effect After stress removal, root fractal dimension quickly approached control.
Association Root total surface area was significantly correlated with root dry weight.
Association Root active absorption surface area was significantly correlated with root relative water content.

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