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A comparison of wild-type, old and modern tomato cultivars in the interaction with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae and the tomato pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici

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The effect of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AM) varies in plant cultivars. In the present study, we tested whether wild-type, old and modern tomato cultivars differ in the parameters of the AM interaction. Moreover, the bioprotective effect of AM against the soilborne tomato pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol) was tested in the different cultivars. Ten tomato cultivars were inoculated with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) Glomus mosseae alone or in combination with Fol. At the end of the experiment, AM root colonization, Fusarium infection, and the plant fresh weight was determined. The tomato cultivars differed in their susceptibility to AMF and Fol, but these differences were not cultivar age dependent. In all the cultivars affected by Fol, mycorrhization showed a bioprotective effect. Independent of the cultivar age, tomato cultivars differ in their susceptibility to AMF and Fol and the bioprotective effect of mycorrhization, indicating that the cultivar age does not affect the AM parameters tested in this study.

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Financial support for this study was provided by the Austrian Science Fund (P20923-B17), the Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, and Fondos Europeos de Desarrollo Regional through the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (AGL2008-00742) as well as the Junta de Andalucía (Research Group BIO 260 and P07-AGR-02883.).

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    Siegrid Steinkellner & Karin Hage-Ahmed

  2. Departamento de Microbiología de Suelos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, 18008, Granada, Spain

    Jose M. García-Garrido, Antonio Illana, Juan A. Ocampo & Horst Vierheilig

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Steinkellner, S., Hage-Ahmed, K., García-Garrido, J.M. et al. A comparison of wild-type, old and modern tomato cultivars in the interaction with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus mosseae and the tomato pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici . Mycorrhiza 22, 189–194 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-011-0393-z

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