Claim · model-written summary
Chitin application enhanced soil microbial activity by 55%.
- Taxon
- groundnut
Arachis hypogaeae2 - Treatment
- Chitin applicatione5
- Outcome
- soil microbial activitye5
- Direction
- enhancede5
- Value
- 55%e5
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Verbatim
e2“Soil application of chitin and chitinolytic biocontrol agents promoted the plant growth to the tune of 39.7% and also increased the yield of groundnut up to 27.8% compared to control”
e5“Chitin application not only reduced the soil nematode population but also enhanced the soil microbial activity up to 55%”
Title
Kalaiarasan Ponnusamy; P.L. Lakshmanan; G. Rajendran; et al. Indian Journal Of Nematology 2006
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Soil application of chitin and biocontrol agents increased groundnut growth by 39.7% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Soil application of chitin and biocontrol agents increased groundnut yield by 27.8% compared with control.
- Intervention effect Chitin and chitinolytic biocontrol agents lowered Meloidogyne arenaria gall numbers per plant.
- Association Gall numbers per plant were negatively correlated with leaf total phenols, peroxidase and chitinase activities.
- Intervention effect Chitin application reduced the soil nematode population.