تأثير المعاملة بلقاح من الميكوريزا الداخلية Endo-mycorrhizae في مؤشرات النمو و الإنتاج لنبات البندورة

Abstract EN

The research aimed to prepare an Endo-mycorrhizal fungi inoculum and to analyse its impact on tomato plant growth.

The experiment was carried out in Suliman Agricultural Company in the center of Jableh city (Syria), in the 2013 season.

The inoculum was prepared using spores of six Endomycorrhizal fungi, mostly belonging to Glomus, and its concentration was 87.9 ± 9.7 spores/100g.

The tomato plants were treated with the prepared inoculum to evaluate its effect on plant growth in comparison with the infected plants.

The experiment was implemented with three replicates using the randomized complete block design.

The treatment of tomato plants with the mycorrhizal inoculum showed a positive impact on the studied traits.

The increments in the treated plants were 8% for plant height, 13.5% for leaves number, 10.2% for flower clusters number, 6.56% and 9.57% for fruit weight and fruit diameter, respectively, 42.1% for fruit number, 153.4% for roots volume, 179.32% and 152.2% for wet and dry total vegetative biomass, respectively, and 312% and 366% for wet and dry total root biomass, respectively.

The percentage of mycorrhizal dependence in the treated plants was 58.59%.