Effect
Increased yield
Covenant treated maize, Zea mays L. cv. 'PR36B08', a significant effect on dry weight of shoot (+17.9%) and root (+22.8%), significant effect on dry matter of shoot (+7.3%) and root (+15.6%), significant upregulating effect on secundary metabolism compared to the untreated control.
Trial details
indoor, polyethylene greenhouse, pots (18 cm diameter) filled with 4 L fluvial sand (washed with distilled water and autoclaved twice), plants were fertirrigated starting 1 week after sowing, mean T inside greenhouse = 20°C and mean RV = 60%
Italy
Crop
Maize, Zea mays L.
Trial application
Method
Seed treatment
Timing
Before sowing
Rate
0.45 mL/kg seed
2020
Metabolomic Responses of Maize Shoots and Roots Elicited by Combinatorial Seed Treatments With Microbial and Non-microbial Biostimulants.
Frontiers in Microbiology
11
1-13
Crop group