Record ID No. |
871 |
Author(s) |
Sorial,M.E., Ali,F.A , 1998 |
Affiliation |
Agric. Bot. Dept., Fac. of Agric., Menofiya Univ., Shebin El-Kom, Egypt. |
Title |
Effect of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza, kinetin and benzimidazol on tomato plants in relation to the growth, yield as well as the biochemical alteration and the internal cytokinin concentration. |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Annals-of-Agricultural-Science,-Moshtohor. 36(2), 755-776p. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Biochemistry |
Host |
Tomato |
Organism |
Glomus intraradices |
Country |
Egypt, Africa |
Abstracts |
Two field experiments were conducted during the 1996 and 1997 summer seasons in Menofiya University, Egypt, to study the effects of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM; Glomus intraradices) inoculation, kinetin and benzimidazol [benzimidazole] treatments on alteration of biochemical constituents, yield and yield components of tomato plants. Spraying tomato plants with benzimidazol was more effective in activation of mycorrhizal infection than kinetin. Yield characters and chemical constituents of tomato plants showed the greatest response when the plants were inoculated with VAM fungi. Moreover, the locally isolated G. intraradices was superior in altering the biochemical processes in tomato plants. It is concluded that tomato plant productivity responds to the combination of benzimidazol at 10 mg/litre and VAM inoculation which significantly induced enhancements in root length, shoot length, dry matter, leaf area, phenol oxidase [catechol oxidase] activity, total phenols, total carbohydrates, total amino acids, proline concentration and internal cytokinin, N, P and K percentage, early and total yields per feddan, lycopene, ascorbic acid and total soluble solids in fruits and percent root infection. |