Abstract
Sterilization of nursery substrate materials decreases the beneficial microorganisms in the surrounding root media and may result in poor seedling growth; compost and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may improve the plantlet development. This experiment aimed to analyze the effect of both AMF inoculation and vermicompost for the initial peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch.] seedling growth in sterilized substrate. Peach seedlings germinated in sterilized perlite were distributed into four resulting treatments from the combination of two factors and two levels each: with/without vermicompost in the growing media and with/without AMF inoculation at the transplanting time. Seedlings were arranged completely randomized inside a glasshouse throughout the study. Utilization of vermicompost in the growing media and AMF inoculation, and their combination, resulted in less total chlorophyll (p < 0.05) measured at 108 days after planting (DAP). At the end of the experiment (180 DAP), AMF inoculation resulted in root colonization greater than 70 % of the total root length; however, this effect was eclipsed by adding vermicompost to the substrate. Root and shoot dry weights and also stem diameter were superior (p < 0.01) by adding vermicompost to the growing substrate, but AMF inoculation had no effect on these variables. It is concluded that vermicompost addition to the substrate is preferable to AMF inoculation in order to stimulate peach seedling growth during the initial six months in sterilized substrates. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54167/tch.v11i2.157
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost lowered total chlorophyll at 108 days after planting.
- Taxon
- Peach
Prunus persicat0 - Treatment
- vermicompost in the growing mediae0
- Outcome
- total chlorophylle0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Qualifier
- 108 days after planting (DAP)e0
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Verbatim
e0“Utilization of vermicompost in the growing media and AMF inoculation, and their combination, resulted in less total chlorophyll (p < 0.05) measured at 108 days after planting (DAP)”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation lowered total chlorophyll at 108 days after planting.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- total chlorophylle0
- Direction
- lesse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Utilization of vermicompost in the growing media and AMF inoculation, and their combination, resulted in less total chlorophyll (p < 0.05) measured at 108 days after planting (DAP)”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined vermicompost and AMF inoculation lowered total chlorophyll.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- their combinatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- total chlorophylle0
- Direction
- lesse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Utilization of vermicompost in the growing media and AMF inoculation, and their combination, resulted in less total chlorophyll (p < 0.05) measured at 108 days after planting (DAP)”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation colonized more than 70% of peach root length by 180 days.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Direction
- greater thane0
- Value
- 70 %e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“At the end of the experiment (180 DAP), AMF inoculation resulted in root colonization greater than 70 % of the total root length”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost reduced the AMF root colonization response.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- adding vermicompost to the substratee0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Direction
- eclipsede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“AMF inoculation resulted in root colonization greater than 70 % of the total root length; however, this effect was eclipsed by adding vermicompost to the substrate”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
Vermicompost increased root and shoot dry weights and stem diameter.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- adding vermicompost to the growing substratee0
- Outcome
- Root and shoot dry weights and also stem diametere0
- Direction
- superiore0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Root and shoot dry weights and also stem diameter were superior (p < 0.01) by adding vermicompost to the growing substrate”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
AMF inoculation did not affect root or shoot dry weight or stem diameter.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- AMF inoculatione0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- Root and shoot dry weights and also stem diametere0
- Direction
- no effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Root and shoot dry weights and also stem diameter were superior (p < 0.01) by adding vermicompost to the growing substrate, but AMF inoculation had no effect on these variables”
t0“Peach”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors prefer vermicompost to AMF inoculation for initial peach seedling growth in sterilized substrate.
- Taxon
- PeachPrunus persicat0
- Treatment
- vermicompost addition to the substratee0
- Outcome
- peach seedling growthe0
- Qualifier
- during the initial six months in sterilized substratese0
- Comparator
- AMF inoculatione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“vermicompost addition to the substrate is preferable to AMF inoculation in order to stimulate peach seedling growth during the initial six months in sterilized substrates”
t0“Peach”
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