Abstract
Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions. Four weeks after sowing, only plants which received infected root segments inocula gave moderate increases in plant growth parameters, compared with non-inoculated ones. However, spores inoculum produced non-significant differences in growth parameters of host plants. Eight weeks after sowing, soil-based pot culture treatment produced more root colonization ratios, shoot dry weights and phosphorus contents than those achieved with aeroponic culture treatment, being most pronounced with plants inoculated with infected root segments. At the final harvest, aeroponic culture of Glomus sp. produced root colonization ratios and plant-growth improvements similar to that achieved with soil-based pot culture treatment. However, (naturally mixed AM fungi) treatment gave the least increases in these parameters. These results indicated that, no biological differences were found between the inoculum obtained from aeroponic culture and this collected from soil-based pot culture.
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Claim · model-written summary
Four weeks after sowing, only maize and sorghum plants receiving infected root segment inocula showed moderate increases in growth parameters compared with non-inoculated plants, under greenhouse conditions.
- Treatment
- infected root segments inoculae1
- Outcome
- plant growth parameterse1
- Direction
- moderate increasese1
- Comparator
- non-inoculated onese1
- Setting
- green house conditionse0
Sorghum
Zea mays
GlomusOrganisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions”
e1“Four weeks after sowing, only plants which received infected root segments inocula gave moderate increases in plant growth parameters, compared with non-inoculated ones”
Claim · model-written summary
Four weeks after sowing, spore inoculum produced non-significant differences in growth parameters of the host plants.
- Treatment
- spores inoculume1
- Outcome
- growth parameterse1
- Direction
- non-significant differencese1
- Setting
- green house conditionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions”
e1“However, spores inoculum produced non-significant differences in growth parameters of host plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Eight weeks after sowing, soil-based pot culture treatment gave higher root colonization ratios, shoot dry weights and phosphorus contents than aeroponic culture treatment, most pronounced with infected root segment inocula.
- Treatment
- soil-based pot culture treatmente1
- Outcome
- root colonization ratios, shoot dry weights and phosphorus contentse1
- Direction
- moree1
- Comparator
- aeroponic culture treatmente1
- Setting
- green house conditionse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions”
e1“Eight weeks after sowing, soil-based pot culture treatment produced more root colonization ratios, shoot dry weights and phosphorus contents than those achieved with aeroponic culture treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
At final harvest, aeroponic culture of Glomus sp. gave root colonization ratios and plant-growth improvements similar to soil-based pot culture treatment.
- Treatment
- aeroponic culture of Glomus sp.e1
- Outcome
- root colonization ratios and plant-growth improvementse1
- Direction
- similare1
- Comparator
- soil-based pot culture treatmente1
- Setting
- green house conditionse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions”
e1“At the final harvest, aeroponic culture of Glomus sp. produced root colonization ratios and plant-growth improvements similar to that achieved with soil-based pot culture treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
The naturally mixed AM fungi treatment gave the least increases in root colonization and growth parameters.
- Treatment
- naturally mixed AM fungie1
- Interactor
- AM fungiGlomeromycotae1symbiont
- Outcome
- these parameterse1
- Direction
- least increasese1
- Setting
- green house conditionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aeroponically-produced mycorrhizal fungus Glomus sp. was compared for growth-promoting potential, with two traditional sources of mycorrhizal nocula, namely soil-based pot culture of Glomus sp. and naturally-mixed AM fungi, in a pot experiment using maize and sorghum as host plants, under green house conditions”
e1“However, (naturally mixed AM fungi) treatment gave the least increases in these parameters”
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