Abstract
In order to study the effect of biofertilizers including mycorrhiza, Azotobacter and Azospirillum, and foliar spray of citric acid on vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) a factorial experiment was conducted in the form of a randomized complete block design with four replications. Before planting, seeds were inoculated with mycorrhiza, Azotobacter and Azospirillum. Citric acid was applied as a foliar spray at a rate of 5 mM at 5-6 leaf stage. Results showed that foliar spray of citric acid significantly increased shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root fresh weight and root dry weight. Mycorrhiza, Azotobacter and Azospirillum had no significant effect on these traits. Three-fold interaction of citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhiza had significant effect on the studied traits. Citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhiza produced the highest amount of shoot fresh weight, while the highest shoot dry weight was produced by citric acid × azospirillum. Citric acid × mycorrhiza produced the highest root fresh weight, whereas the highest root dry weight was produced by Azotobacter × mycorrhiza.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Citric acid significantly increased shoot fresh and dry weight.
- Taxon
- basil
Ocimum basilicume1 - Treatment
- foliar spray of citric acide0
- Outcome
- shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar spray of citric acid significantly increased shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root fresh weight and root dry weight”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Citric acid significantly increased root fresh and dry weight.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- foliar spray of citric acide0
- Outcome
- root fresh weight and root dry weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“foliar spray of citric acid significantly increased shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, root fresh weight and root dry weight”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Microbial inoculants had no significant effect on biomass traits.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- Mycorrhiza, Azotobacter and Azospirillume0
- Interactor
- Mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- these traitse0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Mycorrhiza, Azotobacter and Azospirillum had no significant effect on these traits”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
The citric acid, Azotobacter and mycorrhiza interaction significantly affected studied traits.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhizae0
- Interactor
- Azotobacter
Azotobactere0symbiont - Second interactor
- mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- studied traitse0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Three-fold interaction of citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhiza had significant effect on the studied traits”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Citric acid, Azotobacter and mycorrhiza gave the highest shoot fresh weight.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- Citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhizae0
- Interactor
- AzotobacterAzotobactere0symbiont
- Second interactor
- mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- shoot fresh weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Citric acid × Azotobacter × mycorrhiza produced the highest amount of shoot fresh weight”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Citric acid and azospirillum gave the highest shoot dry weight.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- citric acid × azospirillume0
- Interactor
- azospirillum
Azospirillume0symbiont - Outcome
- shoot dry weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the highest shoot dry weight was produced by citric acid × azospirillum”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Citric acid and mycorrhiza gave the highest root fresh weight.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- Citric acid × mycorrhizae0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- root fresh weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Citric acid × mycorrhiza produced the highest root fresh weight”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Azotobacter and mycorrhiza gave the highest root dry weight.
- Taxon
- basilOcimum basilicume1
- Treatment
- Azotobacter × mycorrhizae0
- Interactor
- AzotobacterAzotobactere0symbiont
- Second interactor
- mycorrhizae0symbiont
- Outcome
- root dry weighte0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the highest root dry weight was produced by Azotobacter × mycorrhiza”
e1“vegetative traits of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)”
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