Abstract
The influence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and disinfestation of soil with solar radiations (Solar) were tested in the field on potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production, the health of plants and harvested tubers at Ngaoundere in the Guinea-savannah zone of Cameroon. Experiments were carried out in a complete randomized block design with four treatments in 2004 and eight in 2005. Non-AMF plants had poorest growth in terms of size and nodes production, while AMF plants grown on solarized soils had the greatest overall growth. The mycorrhizal inoculation ranged from 60 to 74 % in inoculated plants, indicating that Solanum tuberosum was moderately to highly mycorrhizal dependent. Yield of potato expressed in t ha was non- 1 significantly increased by AMF the first year, but was significantly increased by solarization and AMF the second year when compared to the control. Solarization and AMF showed their potential to reduce the diseased plants and tubers. Solar disinfestation of soil for one month was enough to improve potato yield when associated to AMF inoculation. These results suggest that combining soil solarization and AMF could be considered as a remediation of agricultural soils from biopollutants for smallholder farmers wishing to save N and P fertilizers to grow potato and earn cash.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Plants without AMF had the poorest size and node production.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume1 - Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- size and nodes productione0
- Direction
- pooreste0
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Verbatim
e0“Non-AMF plants had poorest growth in terms of size and nodes production”
e1“potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF plants on solarized soil had greatest overall growth.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume1
- Treatment
- AMF plants grown on solarized soilse0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- overall growthe0
- Direction
- greateste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“AMF plants grown on solarized soils had the greatest overall growth”
e1“potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF colonization in inoculated potato ranged from 60 to 74%.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume1
- Interactor
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungie2symbiont
- Outcome
- mycorrhizal inoculatione0
- Value
- 60 to 74 %e0
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Verbatim
e0“The mycorrhizal inoculation ranged from 60 to 74 % in inoculated plants”
e1“potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”
e2“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF increased potato yield nonsignificantly in the first year.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- AMFe0
- Outcome
- Yield of potatoe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- the first yeare0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Yield of potato expressed in t ha was non- 1 significantly increased by AMF the first year”
e1“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
Solarization and AMF significantly increased potato yield in the second year relative to control.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume1
- Treatment
- solarization and AMFe0
- Outcome
- Yield of potatoe1
- Direction
- increasede0
- Qualifier
- the second yeare0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“significantly increased by solarization and AMF the second year when compared to the control”
e1“Yield of potato”
e2“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
Solarization and AMF showed potential to reduce diseased plants and tubers.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume1
- Treatment
- Solarization and AMFe0
- Outcome
- diseased plants and tuberse0
- Direction
- reducee0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Solarization and AMF showed their potential to reduce the diseased plants and tubers”
e1“potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)”
e2“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
One month of solarization with AMF inoculation improved potato yield.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume0
- Treatment
- Solar disinfestation of soil for one monthe0
- Outcome
- potato yielde0
- Direction
- improvee0
- Qualifier
- when associated to AMF inoculatione0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Solar disinfestation of soil for one month was enough to improve potato yield when associated to AMF inoculation”
e1“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest combining solarization and AMF as soil remediation for smallholder potato production.
- Taxon
- potatoSolanum tuberosume0
- Outcome
- combining soil solarization and AMF could be considered as a remediation of agricultural soilse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“combining soil solarization and AMF could be considered as a remediation of agricultural soils from biopollutants for smallholder farmers wishing to save N and P fertilizers to grow potato and earn cash”
e1“Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF)”
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