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Development and resistance to Verticillium dahliae of olive plantlets inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi during the nursery period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2006

A. PORRAS-SORIANO
Affiliation:
Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Agrícola, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava 7, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
I. MARCILLA-GOLDARACENA
Affiliation:
Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Agrícola, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava 7, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
M. L. SORIANO-MARTÍN
Affiliation:
Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Agrícola, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava 7, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
A. PORRAS-PIEDRA
Affiliation:
Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Agrícola, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava 7, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain

Abstract

The current study, performed in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) in 2003–04, reports the growth, nutrition, tolerance to transplanting stress, and resistance to Verticillium dahliae of olive plantlets (Olea europaea L.) inoculated with different arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (Glomus mosseae, G. intraradices and G. claroideum). Inoculated plants tolerated the stress of transplanting better than non-inoculated plants. Compared with controls, plantlets inoculated with any of these three Glomus species grew taller, had more and longer shoots, and showed higher plant N, P and K concentrations. However, colonization seemed to have no influence on resistance to V. dahliae.

Type
Crops and Soils
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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