Denton et al. [40] found increased shoot biomass production with increased Rhizobium inoculation rate.
All CA treatments increased shoot length, while it remained unaffected by MA treatments.
Plants treated with 50% vermicompost showed increased shoot length than GA- and IAA-treated plants.
All treatments significantly increased shoot biomass compared to the control in the calcareous soil.
Overexpression of OsNramp1 (Takahashi et al. 2011) and OsIRT1 Leee and An 2009) increased shoot Cd accumulation in rice plants.
CA at 3 and 6 mM level and 6 mM MA increased shoot dry weight, but only 9 mM CA increased the root dry weight.
Coconut husk biochar did not influence available soil Cu; however, its presence increased shoot Cu uptake by 117% and 38% in the two last growth cycles.
Under greenhouse conditions, all the selected isolates significantly increased shoot and root fresh and dry biomass of maize plants, compared to the non-inoculated control.
Mian et al. (2011) identified role of HKT 2 1 gene in barley and reported increased shoot Na + concentrations and improved biomass production under salt stress.
The same author confirmed that the existence of compost increased shoot and root dry mass by 33 and 41%, respectively, in H. vulgare.
