Abstract
SUMMARY Four methods were compared for inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi when sown in a field containing an indigenous mycorrhizal population. The largest amount of mycorrhizal infection (around 65% of root length infected) was obtained by placing inoculum with the seeds in furrows. The inoculum used was standard soil inoculum from stock plant cultures spread by hand or the same inoculum concentrated to about one seventh by wet‐sieving, and then fluid‐drilled. The effectiveness of multiseeded pellets (seeds stuck onto pellets of soil inoculum) applied broadcast was more variable, infection ranging widely around an average of 30%. Applying both soil inoculum and seeds broadcast produced just under 10% infection, similar to that in the controls given autoclaved inoculum. Seedling establishment, in contrast, was‐better where seeds were applied broadcast than in furrows. It seemed therefore that multiseeded pellets might be the best compromise for achieving reasonable infection in most plants, but fluid drilling had the advantages of greatly reducing the amount of inoculum needed and of readily combining seeds and inoculum in a single carrier.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Putting inoculum with seeds in furrows produced the largest mycorrhizal infection, around 65% of root length.
- Taxon
- red clover
Trifolium pratensee1 - Organ / stage
- roote0
- Treatment
- placing inoculum with the seeds in furrowse0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizal fungie1symbiont
- Outcome
- mycorrhizal infectione0
- Direction
- largeste0
- Value
- around 65%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The largest amount of mycorrhizal infection (around 65% of root length infected) was obtained by placing inoculum with the seeds in furrows.”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
Broadcast multiseeded pellets gave variable mycorrhizal infection averaging 30%.
- Taxon
- red cloverTrifolium pratensee1
- Treatment
- multiseeded pelletse0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizal fungie1symbiont
- Outcome
- infectione0
- Direction
- more variablee0
- Value
- 30%e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effectiveness of multiseeded pellets (seeds stuck onto pellets of soil inoculum) applied broadcast was more variable, infection ranging widely around an average of 30%.”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
Broadcasting soil inoculum and seeds produced just under 10% infection, similar to autoclaved-inoculum controls.
- Taxon
- red cloverTrifolium pratensee1
- Treatment
- both soil inoculum and seeds broadcaste0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizal fungie1symbiont
- Outcome
- infectione0
- Direction
- similar toe0
- Value
- just under 10%e0
- Comparator
- controls given autoclaved inoculume0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Applying both soil inoculum and seeds broadcast produced just under 10% infection, similar to that in the controls given autoclaved inoculum.”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
Seedling establishment was better with broadcast sowing than furrow sowing.
- Taxon
- red cloverTrifolium pratensee1
- Treatment
- seeds were applied broadcaste0
- Outcome
- Seedling establishmente0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- in furrowse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Seedling establishment, in contrast, was‐better where seeds were applied broadcast than in furrows.”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors considered multiseeded pellets the best compromise for achieving infection in most plants.
- Taxon
- red cloverTrifolium pratensee1
- Outcome
- multiseeded pellets might be the best compromisee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“multiseeded pellets might be the best compromise for achieving reasonable infection in most plants”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
Claim · model-written summary
Fluid drilling greatly reduced inoculum needs and readily combined seeds and inoculum in one carrier.
- Taxon
- red cloverTrifolium pratensee1
- Outcome
- greatly reducing the amount of inoculum needed and of readily combining seeds and inoculum in a single carriere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fluid drilling had the advantages of greatly reducing the amount of inoculum needed and of readily combining seeds and inoculum in a single carrier”
e1“inoculating red clover with selected mycorrhizal fungi”
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