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Alessandro Esposito

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Effect of Mycorrhizal Inoculation on Melon Plants under Deficit Irrigation Regimes

2023

The shortage of good quantity and quality of water for irrigated agriculture is a major problem in arid and semiarid regions. To deal with this problem, deficit irrigation (DI) or arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inoculation have been proposed and adopted for many crops as a tool to save water, or to improve crop tolerance to drought stress. An experiment was conducted for two consecutive years to evaluate the effect of mycorrhizal inoculation on the physiological, morphological, yield, and quality characteristics of melon plants grown under deficit irrigation. Melon crop (Cucumis melo L. cv. Helios) was grown under field conditions adopting a split-plot design with four replications, whe…

<i>Cucumis melo</i>water stressCucumis melo water stress evapotranspiration water use efficiency arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi microbial biostimulant fruit qualitywater use efficiencyfruit qualityevapotranspirationarbuscular mycorrhizal fungiSettore AGR/04 - Orticoltura E FloricolturaAgronomy and Crop Sciencemicrobial biostimulantAgronomy
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Effects of NAA and Ecklonia maxima Extracts on Lettuce and Tomato Transplant Production

2022

Ecklonia maxima and the commercial biostimulants produced from it contain various plant growth regulators that are responsible for the growth stimulation recorded in many crops. Auxins are one of the major plant growth regulators contained in E. maxima extracts. The aim of this research was to evaluate the growth-promoting effect of a seaweed extract from E. maxima on lettuce and tomato transplant production under nursery conditions, and to compare the effect of this extract with an equal concentration of synthetic auxin. Two doses of natural or synthetic exogenous auxins (50 or 100 &mu;g L&minus;1) were supplied to the substrate through the irrigation water with an ebb and flow system, 4, …

vegetable nurserybiostimulantsSolanum lycopersicumLactuca sativaseaweed extractsynthetic auxinSettore AGR/04 - Orticoltura E Floricolturaseedlingnatural auxinAgronomy and Crop Sciencevegetable nursery; seedling; <i>Solanum lycopersicum</i>; <i>Lactuca sativa</i>; seaweed extract; synthetic auxins; natural auxins; biostimulants
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Fertigation Management and Growth-Promoting Treatments Affect Tomato Transplant Production and Plant Growth after Transplant

2020

Plant biostimulants are of interest as they can stimulate plant growth and increase resource utilization. There is still no information on the use of plant growth-promoters under variable nutritional conditions in the nursery and the effects on tomato seedling growth and plant performance after transplant. This study aimed to evaluate the suitability of gibberellic acid (GA3) or bacterial biostimulant treatments to enhance the growth and quality of greenhouse-grown tomato (Solanum lycopersicum &lsquo

0106 biological sciencesFertigationPlant growthvegetable nurserypre-transplanting nutritional conditioningSettore AGR/04 - Orticoltura E Floricolturaengineering.materialpost-transplant growth01 natural sciencestransplant productionlcsh:Agriculturechemistry.chemical_compoundNutrientbacterial biostimulantGibberellic acidbiologyInoculationSolanum lycopersicum ‘Marmande’ tomato seedlings vegetable nursery transplant production pre-transplanting nutritional conditioning bacterial biostimulant Bacillus spp. PGPR gibberellic acid post-transplant growthfungilcsh:Sfood and beverages04 agricultural and veterinary sciencesbiology.organism_classificationHorticulturetomato seedlingschemistrySeedling<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> ‘Marmande’PGPR040103 agronomy & agricultureengineering0401 agriculture forestry and fisheriesFertilizerSolanum<i>Bacillus</i> spp.Agronomy and Crop Sciencegibberellic acid010606 plant biology & botany
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