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Effect of Inoculation with the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Glomus Intraradices on the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne Incognita in Cucumber.
- Source :
- Journal of Plant Nutrition; Jun2009, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p967-979, 13p, 1 Chart, 3 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- A pot experiment was carried out to investigate the tolerance of cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus L.) to root-knot nematode after inoculation with Glomus intraradices. Plants were inoculated with G. intraradices for four weeks and then transplanted in soil treated with Meloidogyne incognita for a further five weeks. The low phosphorus (P) loamy soil was amended with 50 and 100 mg P kg-1 soil. Mycorrhizal colonization increased shoot dry weight, shoot length, leaf numbers, root fresh weight and shoot P concentration, whereas nematode penetration and reproduction were significantly decreased. Similarly, P fertilization usually increased shoot growth and significantly decreased the number of galls and the number of egg masses and eggs per g root. Our results indicate that inoculation with G. intraradices and P fertilizer confer tolerance of cucumber plants to M. incognita by enhancing plant growth and by suppressing reproduction and/or galling of nematodes during the early stages of plant growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01904167
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Plant Nutrition
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 39359727
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01904160902870739