Abstract
The research study evaluates the potential of Sorghum bicolor for development of mycorrhizal soil. The development of soil based mycorrhizal inoculum using sorghum bicolor was carried out under controlled greenhouse conditions. The experiment was carried out for a period of two and half months. The physico-chemical parameters and mycorrhizal characterization such as root colonization and spore count was carried out at regular interval. Significant increase in spore count was observed during the development of mycorrhizal soil. The Sorghum bicolor grown in mycorrhizal soil had higher root colonization (%) as compare to control soil. The spore count was found to be increasing from 16 of 100 g -1 to 526 100 g -1 and root colonization from 3 % to 80% of mycorrhizal soil when compared to control soil. Root colonization in the mycorrhizal soil was positively correlated (P<0.001) with spore count. The response of mycorrhizal characteristics such as root colonization and spore count to physic-chemical parameters such as pH, carbon content, moisture, phosphorous and nitrogen was analysed. Soil moisture had a positive influence on root colonization and spore count, while phosphorous was negatively correlated with root colonization and spore count. Mycorrhizal soil showed a significant positive correlation between root colonization and spore count with nitrogen and organic carbon. Thus development of mycorrhizal soil induces series of changes in soil physico-chemical characteristics and nutrient availability that may determine outcome of rhizosphere bioremediation. The development of effective mycorrhizosphere in the present research study can provide a suitable environment for enhanced degradation of organic pollutants in soil.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Spore counts rose significantly as mycorrhizal soil developed.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolort0 - Outcome
- spore counte0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“Significant increase in spore count was observed during the development of mycorrhizal soil.”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Sorghum in mycorrhizal soil had higher root colonization than in control soil.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolore0
- Treatment
- mycorrhizal soile0
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control soile0
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Verbatim
e0“The Sorghum bicolor grown in mycorrhizal soil had higher root colonization (%) as compare to control soil.”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil spore count increased from 16 to 526 per 100 g during mycorrhizal soil development.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Outcome
- spore counte0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Value
- 16 of 100 g -1 to 526 100 g -1e0
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Verbatim
e0“The spore count was found to be increasing from 16 of 100 g -1 to 526 100 g -1”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Root colonization rose from 3% to 80% in mycorrhizal soil compared with control soil.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Treatment
- mycorrhizal soile0
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Direction
- highere1
- Value
- 3 % to 80%e0
- Comparator
- control soile0
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Verbatim
e0“root colonization from 3 % to 80% of mycorrhizal soil when compared to control soil”
e1“The Sorghum bicolor grown in mycorrhizal soil had higher root colonization (%) as compare to control soil.”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Root colonization correlated positively with spore count.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Outcome
- Root colonizatione0
- Direction
- positively correlatede0
- Qualifier
- P<0.001e0
- Setting
- mycorrhizal soile0
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Verbatim
e0“Root colonization in the mycorrhizal soil was positively correlated (P<0.001) with spore count.”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Soil moisture was positively associated with root colonization and spore count.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Outcome
- root colonization and spore counte0
- Direction
- positivee0
- Setting
- Soil moisturee0
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Verbatim
e0“Soil moisture had a positive influence on root colonization and spore count”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Phosphorous was negatively correlated with root colonization and spore count.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Outcome
- root colonization and spore counte0
- Direction
- negatively correlatede0
- Setting
- phosphorouse0
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Verbatim
e0“phosphorous was negatively correlated with root colonization and spore count”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen and organic carbon correlated significantly and positively with root colonization and spore count.
- Taxon
- Sorghum bicolorSorghum bicolort0
- Outcome
- root colonization and spore counte0
- Direction
- positivee0
- Setting
- Mycorrhizal soile0
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Verbatim
e0“Mycorrhizal soil showed a significant positive correlation between root colonization and spore count with nitrogen and organic carbon.”
t0“Sorghum bicolor”
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