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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 4, Pages 388-394Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/W08-144
Keywords
Asparagus officinalis; Pseudomonas; water stress; drought; flooding
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- Ontario Asparagus Growers Marketing Board
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
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Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can have positive effects on vigour and productivity, especially under stress conditions. In asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) field culture, seeds are planted in high-density nurseries, and 1-year-old crowns are transplanted to production fields. Performance can be negatively affected by water stress, transplant shock, and disease pressure on wounded roots. PGPR inoculation has the potential to alleviate some of the stresses incurred in the production system. In this study, the effects of PGPR (Pseudomonas spp.) treatment were determined on 3-week-old greenhouse-grown seedlings and germinating seeds of 2 asparagus cultivars. The pots were irrigated to a predetermined level that resulted in optimum growth or the plants were subjected to drought or flooding stress for 8 weeks. The cultivars responded differently to PGPR: single inoculations of seedlings enhanced growth of 'Guelph Millennium' under optimum conditions and 'Jersey Giant' seedlings under drought stress. Seed inoculations with PGPR resulted in a positive response only for 'Guelph Millennium', for which both single or multiple inoculations enhanced plant growth under drought stress.
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