Claim · model-written summary
Biochar increased soil microbial diversity and richness in apple replant soil
- Taxon
- Apple
Malus domesticae0 - Treatment
- Biochare1
- Outcome
- soil microbial diversity and richnesse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- apple replant soil (CK)e2
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Verbatim
e0“Apple replant disease (ARD) negatively affects plant growth and reduces yields in replanted orchards”
e1“Biochar significantly reduced the abundance of F. oxysporum and increased soil microbial diversity and richness”
e2“apple replant soil (CK)”
Title
Yinghao Liu; Can Wang; Ran Chen; et al. Horticultural Plant Journal 2023. doi:10.1016/j.hpj.2022.11.009
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Biochar significantly reduced the abundance of F. oxysporum in apple replant soil compared with soil inoculated with F. oxysporum
- Intervention effect Biochar increased the soil enzyme activities of urease, invertase and neutral phosphatase in apple replant soil
- Intervention effect Biochar increased soil catalase activity in apple replant soil
- Intervention effect Biochar increased biomass (plant height, fresh weight, dry weight) of apple seedlings
- Intervention effect Biochar increased the activity of antioxidant enzymes (superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase) in apple seedlings
- Intervention effect Biochar increased the root indexes of apple seedlings in replant soil
- Intervention effect Biochar alleviated apple replant disease in replant soil