Abstract
Reductions in the quality and yield of crops continuously produced in the same location for many years due to annual increases in soil-borne pathogens. Environmentally-friendly methods are needed to produce vegetables sustainably and cost effectively under protective cover. We investigated the impact of biofertilizers on cucumber growth and yield, and changes to populations of soil microorganisms in response to biofertilizer treatments applied to substrate or soil. We observed that some biofertilizers significantly increased cucumber growth and decreased soil-borne pathogens in soil and substrate. Rhizosphere microbial communities in soil and substrate responded differently to different biofertilizers, which also led to significant differences in microbial diversity and taxonomic structure at different times in the growing season. Biofertilizers increase the prospects of re-using substrate for continuously producing high-quality crops cost-effectively from the same soil each year while at the same time controlling soil-borne disease.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Some biofertilizers significantly increased cucumber growth.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- biofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- cucumber growthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“some biofertilizers significantly increased cucumber growth”
Claim · model-written summary
Some biofertilizers decreased soil-borne pathogens in soil and substrate.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- biofertilizerse0
- Interactor
- soil-borne pathogense0pathogen
- Outcome
- soil-borne pathogense0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“some biofertilizers significantly increased cucumber growth and decreased soil-borne pathogens in soil and substrate”
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizosphere microbial communities in soil and substrate responded differently to different biofertilizers.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- different biofertilizerse0
- Interactor
- Rhizosphere microbial communitiese0symbiont
- Outcome
- Rhizosphere microbial communitiese0
- Direction
- differentlye0
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e0“Rhizosphere microbial communities in soil and substrate responded differently to different biofertilizers”
t0“greenhouse-grown cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Biofertilizers produced significant differences in rhizosphere microbial diversity and taxonomic structure across growing-season times.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- different biofertilizerse1
- Outcome
- microbial diversity and taxonomic structuree0
- Direction
- differencese0
- Qualifier
- different times in the growing seasone0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“significant differences in microbial diversity and taxonomic structure at different times in the growing season”
e1“different biofertilizers”
t0“greenhouse-grown cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that biofertilizers improve the prospects for substrate reuse and soil-borne disease control in continuous crop production.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- Biofertilizerse0
- Outcome
- re-using substrate for continuously producing high-quality crops cost-effectivelye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Biofertilizers increase the prospects of re-using substrate for continuously producing high-quality crops cost-effectively from the same soil each year while at the same time controlling soil-borne disease”
t0“greenhouse-grown cucumber”
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