Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculant increases yield of spice pepper and affects the indigenous fungal community in the field

0390307 - BÚ 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Hernádi, I. - Sasvári, Z. - Albrechtová, Jana - Vosátka, Miroslav - Posta, K.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculant increases yield of spice pepper and affects the indigenous fungal community in the field.
Hortscience. Roč. 47, č. 5 (2012), s. 603-606. ISSN 0018-5345. E-ISSN 2327-9834
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : yield of pepper * diversity of fungi * AMS inoculation
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 0.938, year: 2012

Although the majority of horticultural crops are mycorrhiza-dependent, the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) inoculation in plant production has been neglected in high-input agriculture. Field application of a commercial inoculum mix of Glomus spp. was tested in spice pepper (Capsicum annuum L. var. longum), cv. Szegedi, cultivation. With polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP), differences in small subunit ribosomal RNA genes were used to characterize groups of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) with respect to effects of mycorrhizal inoculation on an indigenous AMF population. The AMF inoculant was able to establish in the rhizosphere of pepper plants and mycorrhizal inoculation increased yield of spice pepper by more than 65% compared with the non-treated control plants. Having relatively high root colonization in the control, non-inoculated treatment indicated high presence of indigenous populations of AMF in the field soil.
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