Claim · model-written summary
Firmicutes abundance declined under BS relative to CK.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatat0 - Treatment
- BSe0
- Outcome
- Firmicutese0
- Direction
- downward trende0
- Comparator
- control (CK)e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The application of BS resulted in an increase in the relative abundance of Proteobacteria in root-zone soil of cowpea, while Actinobacteria and Firmicutes showed a downward trend compared to the control (CK)”
t0“cowpea”
Title
Jie Zhu; Jiachen Chen; Jie Zhang; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-07583-7
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Four microbial agents increased soil organic matter, nitrate nitrogen and available potassium.
- Intervention effect BS increased Proteobacteria abundance in cowpea root-zone soil.
- Intervention effect Actinobacteria abundance declined under BS relative to CK.
- Intervention effect BS increased Bradyrhizobium abundance by 109.4% versus CK.
- Intervention effect TH increased Bradyrhizobium abundance by 38.5% versus CK.
- Intervention effect AB increased Bradyrhizobium abundance by 20.6% versus CK.
- Intervention effect TH increased Halorhodospira abundance by 47.4%.
- Intervention effect CP increased Halorhodospira abundance by 98.5%.
- Intervention effect CP increased cowpea yield by 9.6% versus CK.
- Intervention effect BS promoted cowpea main stem width.
- Intervention effect AB enhanced cowpea protein, vitamin C and organic acid contents.
- Recommendation The authors favored CP for cowpea growth, yield and nitrogen-fixing bacterial community structure.