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Effect of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices on the false root-knot nematode Nacobbus aberrans in tomato plants

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Information about the interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the false root-knot nematode Nacobbus aberrans (Thorne, 1935) Thorne & Allen, 1944 is scarce. The effect of Glomus intraradices Schenk & Smith on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) cv. Platense inoculated with nematode juveniles from Lisandro Olmos (Argentina) was studied under greenhouse conditions. Six treatments with five replications were performed. After 80 days, nematode reproduction and percentage of AMF colonization in roots were estimated. Some plant growth parameters were also measured. In general, plants with AMF and AMF plus nematodes grew as well as the control without AMF and without nematodes. Furthermore, G. intraradices was beneficial in reducing nematode-induced damage in roots (lower number of galls) as well as in having a suppressive effect on parasite reproduction. This is the first study on the use of G. intraradices as a possible strategy in the control of N. aberrans in tomato.

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This work was financially supported by the Agencia Córdoba Ciencia S. E. (Province of Córdoba, Argentina). The authors thank Dr. Guillermo Cap (IPAF Pampeana-INTA, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) for providing the nematode population. Dr M. Cabello is a researcher of the CIC.

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  1. Centro de Zoología Aplicada, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Rondeau 798, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina

    Paola Lax & Marcelo E. Doucet

  2. IMBIV-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, C.C. 495, 5000, Córdoba, Argentina

    Alejandra G. Becerra & Florencia Soteras

  3. Instituto Spegazzini, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Avenida 53, No. 477, 1900, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Marta Cabello

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Lax, P., Becerra, A.G., Soteras, F. et al. Effect of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices on the false root-knot nematode Nacobbus aberrans in tomato plants. Biol Fertil Soils 47, 591–597 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-010-0514-4

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