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ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Exploiting Biological Nitrogen Fixation: A Route Towards a Sustainable Agriculture.

Abdoulaye Soumare, Abdala G Diedhiou, Moses Thuita, Mohamed Hafidi, Yedir Ouhdouch, Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Lamfeddal Kouisni

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Review in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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103citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Abdoulaye SoumareAgroBioSciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0003-0334-0230
Abdala G DiedhiouLaboratoire Commun de Microbiologie (LCM) IRD/ISRA/UCAD, Centre de Recherche de Bel Air, Dakar 1386, Senegal.
Moses ThuitaInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nairobi PO BOX 30772-00100, Kenya.
Mohamed HafidiAgroBioSciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, Morocco.
Yedir OuhdouchAgroBioSciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0002-6406-6290
Subramaniam GopalakrishnanInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502319, India.ORCID 0000-0003-4053-7016
Lamfeddal KouisniAgroBioSciences Program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, Morocco.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic fertilizers, nitrogen requirements for food production increase from year to year, while the overuse of agrochemicals compromise soil health and agricultural sustainability. One alternative to overcome this problem is biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). Indeed, more than 60% of the fixed

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Identifiers

PMID32796519
PMCPMC7464700

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