Abstract
Tea plants are sensitive to soil moisture deficit, with the level of soil water being a critical factor affecting their growth and quality. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can improve water and nutrient absorption, but it is not clear whether AMF can improve the photosynthetic characteristics of tea plants. A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions. Root mycorrhizal colonization and soil hyphal length were significantly reduced by the eight-week DS treatment. AMF inoculation displayed a significant increase in shoot and root biomass production. The relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment content, maximum photometric effect (Fv/Fm, QY_max), and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss) decreased dramatically, while the leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss) generally increased under DS conditions. Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants. These results imply that AMF promoted tea plant growth and alleviated negative effects of DS by promoting gas exchange, regulating the water status of leaves, and regulating photosynthetic parameters.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Drought stress significantly reduced root mycorrhizal colonization in tea plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensis
Camellia sinensise0 - Material
- Fuding Dabaichae0
- Treatment
- eight-week DS treatmente1
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatum
Entrophospora etunicatae0symbiont - Outcome
- Root mycorrhizal colonizatione1
- Direction
- reducede1
- Setting
- potted studye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e1“Root mycorrhizal colonization and soil hyphal length were significantly reduced by the eight-week DS treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Inoculation with AMF significantly increased shoot and root biomass production in tea plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Material
- Fuding Dabaichae0
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione2
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- shoot and root biomass productione2
- Direction
- increasee2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e2“AMF inoculation displayed a significant increase in shoot and root biomass production”
Claim · model-written summary
Under DS conditions, relative water content, leaf water potential and nitrogen balance index decreased dramatically in tea plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- DS conditionse3
- Outcome
- relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance indexe3
- Direction
- decreased dramaticallye3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e3“The relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment content, maximum photometric effect (Fv/Fm, QY_max), and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss) decreased dramatically, while the leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss) generally increased under DS conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Under DS conditions, pigment content, Fv/Fm (QY_max) and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss) decreased dramatically in tea plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- DS conditionse3
- Outcome
- pigment content, maximum photometric effect (Fv/Fm, QY_max), and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss)e3
- Direction
- decreased dramaticallye3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e3“The relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment content, maximum photometric effect (Fv/Fm, QY_max), and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss) decreased dramatically, while the leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss) generally increased under DS conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Under DS conditions, leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss) generally increased in tea plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- DS conditionse3
- Outcome
- leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss)e3
- Direction
- generally increasede3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e3“The relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment content, maximum photometric effect (Fv/Fm, QY_max), and steady-state photometric effect Y (II) (QY_Lss) decreased dramatically, while the leaf water saturation deficit and steady-state non-photochemical fluorescence quenching (NPQ_Lss) generally increased under DS conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal treatment significantly raised relative water content, leaf water potential and nitrogen balance index of tea plants compared with non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizal treatmente4
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance indexe4
- Direction
- significantly highere4
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal plantse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e4“Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal treatment significantly raised pigment content (chlorophyll, flavonoid and anthocyanin) of tea plants compared with non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizal treatmente4
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) contente4
- Direction
- significantly highere4
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal plantse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e4“Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal treatment significantly raised net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate and stomatal conductance of tea plants compared with non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizal treatmente4
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductancee4
- Direction
- significantly highere4
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal plantse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e4“Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal treatment significantly raised intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max and QY_Lss of tea plants compared with non-mycorrhizal plants.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizal treatmente4
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lsse4
- Direction
- significantly highere4
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal plantse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e4“Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal treatment lowered leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss of tea plants under both well-watered and drought stress conditions.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- Mycorrhizal treatmente4
- Interactor
- Claroideoglomus etunicatumEntrophospora etunicatae0symbiont
- Outcome
- leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lsse4
- Direction
- lowere4
- Qualifier
- under both WW and DS conditionse4
- Comparator
- non-mycorrhizal plantse4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e4“Mycorrhizal treatment induced significantly higher relative water content, leaf water potential, nitrogen balance index, pigment (chlorophyll, flavonoid, and anthocyanin) content, net photosynthesis rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, intercellular CO2 concentration, QY_max, and QY_Lss; however, it resulted in a lower leaf water saturation deficit and NPQ_Lss under both WW and DS conditions, as compared with non-mycorrhizal plants”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF promoted tea plant growth and alleviated negative effects of drought stress by promoting gas exchange, regulating leaf water status and photosynthetic parameters.
- Taxon
- Camellia sinensisCamellia sinensise0
- Treatment
- AMFe5
- Outcome
- tea plant growthe5
- Qualifier
- by promoting gas exchange, regulating the water status of leaves, and regulating photosynthetic parameterse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“A potted study was conducted to determine the effects of Claroideoglomus etunicatum on plant growth, leaf water status, pigment content, gas exchange, and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters in Camellia sinensis cv. Fuding Dabaicha under well-watered (WW) and drought stress (DS) conditions”
e5“These results imply that AMF promoted tea plant growth and alleviated negative effects of DS by promoting gas exchange, regulating the water status of leaves, and regulating photosynthetic parameters”
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