Abstract
Due to global warming and climate change, drought is considered one of the major abiotic stressful conditions that causes numerous morphological, physiological, and biochemical changes that limit the plant growth and productivity. The enhancement of drought tolerance by the application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria has been progressively documented. Therefore, the present study was carried out to examine the potential role of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar. Phaseoli in attenuating the adverse effects of water deficiency (80, and 60% of the estimated crop evapotranspiration) on growth, yield and quality and some biochemical and physiological parameters of green bean plants cv. Valentino. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design with three replications. The obtained results revealed that increasing water deficit severity resulted in decreases in plant growth characteristics, leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI) and yield components, as well as induced increments in proline content, catalase, peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase activities. However, application of Rhizobium leguminosarum considerably improved all growth and yield parameters and enhanced SPAD readings, RWC, MSI, proline content, and antioxidant enzyme activities. It could be concluded that Rhizobium leguminosarum inoculation could be used as a promising and sustainable strategy to cope with the adverse impacts of drought stress on green bean productivity in the forthcoming era of climate change.
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Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficit reduced plant growth characteristics and yield components.
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- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- increasing water deficit severitye0
- Outcome
- plant growth characteristicse0
- Direction
- decreasese0
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e0“increasing water deficit severity resulted in decreases in plant growth characteristics, leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI) and yield components”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
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Increasing water deficit reduced yield components.
- Taxon
- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- increasing water deficit severitye0
- Outcome
- yield componentse0
- Direction
- decreasese0
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Verbatim
e0“increasing water deficit severity resulted in decreases in plant growth characteristics, leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI) and yield components”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficit reduced leaf nutrient content, SPAD, relative water content and membrane stability.
- Taxon
- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- increasing water deficit severitye0
- Outcome
- leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI)e0
- Direction
- decreasese0
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“increasing water deficit severity resulted in decreases in plant growth characteristics, leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI) and yield components”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
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Increasing water deficit raised proline content and antioxidant enzyme activities.
- Taxon
- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- water deficit severitye0
- Outcome
- proline content, catalase, peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase activitiese0
- Direction
- incrementse0
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Verbatim
e0“increasing water deficit severity resulted in decreases in plant growth characteristics, leaf nutrient content, SPAD readings, leaf relative water content (LRWC), leaf membrane stability index (LMSI) and yield components, as well as induced increments in proline content, catalase, peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase activities.”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizobium application improved growth and yield parameters.
- Taxon
- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- application of Rhizobium leguminosarume0
- Interactor
- Rhizobium leguminosarum
Rhizobium leguminosarume0symbiont - Outcome
- growth and yield parameterse0
- Direction
- improvede0
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e0“application of Rhizobium leguminosarum considerably improved all growth and yield parameters and enhanced SPAD readings, RWC, MSI, proline content, and antioxidant enzyme activities.”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Rhizobium application enhanced SPAD, water content, membrane stability, proline and antioxidant enzyme activity.
- Taxon
- green bean plantst0
- Treatment
- application of Rhizobium leguminosarume0
- Interactor
- Rhizobium leguminosarumRhizobium leguminosarume0symbiont
- Outcome
- SPAD readings, RWC, MSI, proline content, and antioxidant enzyme activitiese0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“application of Rhizobium leguminosarum considerably improved all growth and yield parameters and enhanced SPAD readings, RWC, MSI, proline content, and antioxidant enzyme activities.”
t0“Green Bean Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors propose Rhizobium inoculation to sustain green bean productivity under drought.
- Taxon
- green beane0
- Interactor
- Rhizobium leguminosarumRhizobium leguminosarume0symbiont
- Outcome
- cope with the adverse impacts of drought stress on green bean productivitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Rhizobium leguminosarum inoculation could be used as a promising and sustainable strategy to cope with the adverse impacts of drought stress on green bean productivity”
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