Inoculation Case Study

Allium spp. responded with growth promotion on AMF inoculation. Onion plants inoculated with AMF (Glomus intraradices or Glomus versiforme) grown in pots with mineral soil with higher biomass than non-inoculated plants and reached marketable size (>25 mm bulb diameter) 1-2 weeks earlier than those (5). These AMF inoculation causes bulb development of onions (5). Mycorrhizal inoculation lead to 22% increase yields of onions compared to controls. Mixed application of mycorrhizal inoculation, humic substances and elevated CO2 promotes highest aggregation of proteins, soluble sugars and proline in leaves of A. cepa. It seems to be the very effective combination of treatments to increase the quality of onion shoots as responsible organs for stress
Conversa et al. (2007) found that the impact of mycorrhization on the growth of tomato was clear from the other month of cultivation when increase of the plant leaf area index was registered. Pepper (Capsicum annuum) plants showed growth promotion plus increased yields after inoculation with AMF. It has also been indicated that the occurrence of significant quantities of mycorrhiza early in the growth period was the most crucial. Mycorrhizal inoculation is capable of supporting the membrane stability and growth of pepper plants under salt stress. It was demonstrated that there is increased chlorophyll index and leaf contents of N, P, Fe and Zn in inoculated pepper plant after inoculation with AMF compared with non- inoculated plants. It has been suggested that the inoculation of AMF (G. mosseae and Acaulospora laevis) with plant growth promoting bacteria (P. fluorescens) with 50% reduced doses of phosphorus fertilizer during seedling transplantation to increase overall growth and yield performance of pepper and could be considered as a sustainable substitute to high P fertilizer in pepper cultivation (6,7). Potato plant showed growth promotion, higher phosphorus use efficiency, higher root to shoot ratio and a lower leaf to tuber ratio after inoculation with AMF (G. intraradices) compared to non- mycorrhizal plants at low soil P concentrations
mosseae) to the soil during planting improves growth of cucumber and inhibit anthracnose, cucumber mosaic, and damping-off diseases caused by Colletotrichum orbiculare, Cucumber Mosaic Virus, and Rhizoctonia solani, respectively (17,18). It has been studied that the bio-control potential of 2 AMF species (F. mosseae and A. laevis) and T. viride against tomato wilt caused by F. oxysporum Schlecht. f. sp. lycopersici in pot condition and established that soil inoculation with F. mosseae with root inoculation and conidial suspension of T. viride before transplantation, obtained better resistance and survival to tomato seedlings against Fusarium wilt (6,7). It has been studied the effects of the relation between the AM fungus G. mosseae and F. equiseti GF18-3 on cucumber growth and the bio-control of the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV-Y), it was found that the treatment of AMF with GF18-3 alone have the ability to lessen disease severity and increase crop yield (21). It has been investigated bio-control effects of AMF (G. mosseae, G. versiforme) on F. oxysporum wilt disease of cucumber and it was found that both AMF enhances the growth of cucumber seedlings and lessen disease severity but G. versiforme have greater efficiency. Comparison between non-mycorrhizal plants infected by F. oxysporum, shoots and roots dry weights increased by 100% and 80% in G. versiforme inoculated crops