Azospirillum inoculation effects on growth, product quality and storage life of lettuce plants grown under salt stress
- Fasciglione, Gabriela
- Casanovas, Elda Mabel
- Quillehauquy, Victoria
- Yommi, Alejandra Karina
- Goñi, María Gabriela
- Roura, Sara Ines
- Barassi, Carlos Alberto
DOIAbstract
Recent results have shown that Azospirillum-inoculated lettuce seeds yield a higher number of transplanted plants with superior traits than non-inoculated controls grown with and without saline stress. However, little available information on the possibility that Azospirillum could improve nutritional and quality market parameters on plants grown under saline conditions and extend life storage has prompted us to explore this issue. In this work, seed inoculation with Azospirillum not only promoted higher biomass but also improved lettuce quality when plants were grown under salt-stress conditions. Compared to non-inoculated controls, higher ascorbic acid content was accompanied by a lower oxidation rate in Azospirillum-inoculated plants. In...
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