Preserve wheat C6 mixture-versus-member assay contrasts and null outcomes #1941

Finding

CommunityMech:000077 conflates assembly with colonization facilitation and treats auxin/root-shortening phenotypes as MUTUALISM. Remove the assembly pseudo-node. Retain C6 plate inhibition, calibrated Salkowski output and Arabidopsis primary-root shortening without proven hormone mediation or reciprocal benefit. Keep positive cell-free and volatile results for individual members, explicitly contrasted with the assembled C6: all ten mixture supernatants lacked reported antifungal activity, and C6 was not among the four significantly inhibitory volatile mixtures. C6 was not among the mixtures with significant greenhouse root-rot or root-weight improvement. No new causal links or claims of universal ineffectiveness.

Evidence And Limits

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9473337/

Four whole canonical records reviewed against three unique primary articles. Fresh abstracts and Crossref identities checked for all records; complete wheat C1/C6 and crown-rot main bodies read, including methods, results, discussion, table text and captions. C1/C6 retrievals have identical body hashes. Tomato changes are abstract-bounded: EuropePMC exposed no PMC article and the publisher open returned403. No exhaustive full-text absence claim, original figure-pixel or separate-supplement audit, raw-data reanalysis or new optimization protocol. Local searches include hidden/ignored files with credentials excluded; all-state issue titles/bodies checked.

Lifecycle

Address in batch121; close only after protected-main merge. Source-based self-adversarial review is not independent approval.