Abstract
The effect of phosphate solubilizing microbes (PSM) on plant P uptake and growth in rock phosphate applied soil was tested under a greenhouse condition. Tobacco plants were grown in nonsterilized soil inoculated with Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa with or without rock phosphate application as P fertilizer. Phosphorus concentration in tobacco plants was increased by the application of rock phosphate, while inoculation of soil with fungi further significantly increased P concentration in tobacco plants compared with the noninoculated treatments. Phosphorus uptake by tobacco plants was also increased by the application of rock phosphate and PSM inoculation, and the significant comparison has been made with single rock phosphate treatment. Growth of tobacco plant was also significantly increased in the treatments receiving rock phosphate, while the combined application of rock phosphate and PSM further increased plant growth. It was concluded that the positive effect of PSM inoculation on plant growth was closely related in plant P content and uptake. These results suggest that Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa could solubilize insoluble soil phosphates and rock phosphate which can promote growth and P uptake of tobacco plants.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Rock phosphate application increased P concentration in tobacco plants.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Treatment
- application of rock phosphatee1
- Outcome
- Phosphorus concentratione1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Phosphorus concentration in tobacco plants was increased by the application of rock phosphate”
Claim · model-written summary
Fungal inoculation of soil further significantly increased P concentration in tobacco plants compared with noninoculated treatments.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume3
- Treatment
- inoculation of soil with fungie3
- Interactor
- Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa
Penicillium oxalicume2symbiont - Outcome
- P concentratione3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Comparator
- noninoculated treatmentse3
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Verbatim
e2“Tobacco plants were grown in nonsterilized soil inoculated with Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa with or without rock phosphate application as P fertilizer”
e3“inoculation of soil with fungi further significantly increased P concentration in tobacco plants compared with the noninoculated treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Rock phosphate application increased P uptake by tobacco plants.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Treatment
- application of rock phosphatee1
- Outcome
- Phosphorus uptakee1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Phosphorus uptake by tobacco plants was also increased by the application of rock phosphate”
Claim · model-written summary
Rock phosphate combined with PSM inoculation increased P uptake by tobacco plants relative to single rock phosphate treatment.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Treatment
- rock phosphate and PSM inoculatione1
- Interactor
- PSMe1symbiont
- Outcome
- Phosphorus uptakee1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- single rock phosphate treatmente1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Phosphorus uptake by tobacco plants was also increased by the application of rock phosphate and PSM inoculation, and the significant comparison has been made with single rock phosphate treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Rock phosphate significantly increased growth of tobacco plants.
- Taxon
- tobacco plant
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Treatment
- rock phosphatee1
- Outcome
- Growthe1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e1“Growth of tobacco plant was also significantly increased in the treatments receiving rock phosphate”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined rock phosphate and PSM application further increased growth of tobacco plants beyond rock phosphate treatments.
- Taxon
- tobacco plant
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Treatment
- combined application of rock phosphate and PSMe1
- Interactor
- PSMe1symbiont
- Outcome
- plant growthe1
- Direction
- further increasede1
- Comparator
- treatments receiving rock phosphatee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Growth of tobacco plant was also significantly increased in the treatments receiving rock phosphate, while the combined application of rock phosphate and PSM further increased plant growth”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that the positive effect of PSM inoculation on tobacco growth is closely related to plant P content and uptake.
- Taxon
- tobacco
Nicotiana tabacume2
- Treatment
- PSM inoculatione1
- Outcome
- plant growthe1
- Qualifier
- closely related in plant P content and uptakee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“It was concluded that the positive effect of PSM inoculation on plant growth was closely related in plant P content and uptake”
e2“Growth of tobacco plant”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest that Penicillium oxalicum could solubilize insoluble soil phosphates and rock phosphate, promoting tobacco growth and P uptake.
- Taxon
- tobacco plants
Nicotiana tabacume1
- Interactor
- Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa
Penicillium oxalicume1symbiont - Outcome
- solubilize insoluble soil phosphates and rock phosphatee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e1“These results suggest that Penicillium oxalicum CBPS-3F-Tsa could solubilize insoluble soil phosphates and rock phosphate which can promote growth and P uptake of tobacco plants”
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