Grafting Eggplant Onto Underutilized Solanum Species and Biostimulatory Action of Azospirillum brasilense Modulate Growth, Yield, NUE and Nutritional and Functional Traits
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Experimental Location and Type of Plants
2.2. Azospirillum brasilense Culture Preparation and Inoculation
2.3. Plant Development and Productive Traits
2.4. Fruit Nutritional Traits, Element Concentration, Functional Compounds and Nitrogen Use Efficiency
2.5. Experimental Layout and Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Plant Growth and Yield
3.2. Fruit Dry Matter, Firmness and Soluble Solids Content
3.3. Minerals, Proteins and NUE
3.4. Fruit Functional Features
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Treatments | Total Yield (kg Plant−1) | Marketable Yield (kg Plant−1) | Number of Marketable Fruits (no. Plant−1) | Mean Mass of Marketable Fruits (g Fruit−1) | |||||
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Type of plant (T) | Gloria not grafted | 3.8 | c | 3.5 | c | 9.8 | b | 355.3 | b |
Gloria self-grafted | 4.1 | c | 3.8 | c | 10.7 | b | 355.9 | b | |
Gloria/S. torvum | 4.8 | a | 4.6 | a | 12.5 | a | 365.9 | a | |
Gloria/S. aethiopicum | 4.4 | b | 4.2 | b | 11.9 | a | 349.0 | b | |
Gloria/S. macrocarpon | 1.7 | d | 1.4 | d | 5.1 | c | 275.0 | c | |
Biostimulant (B) | Control | 3.7 | b | 3.3 | b | 9.6 | b | 336.0 | b |
Inoculated | 3.9 | a | 3.6 | a | 10.3 | a | 344.4 | a | |
Significance | |||||||||
T | *** | *** | *** | *** | |||||
B | * | *** | ** | *** | |||||
T × B | NS | NS | NS | NS |
Treatments | Fruit Dry Matter (%) | Firmness (N) | SSC (°Brix) | ||||
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Type of plant (T) | Gloria not grafted | 7.1 | a | −46.8 | a | 4.6 | c |
Gloria self-grafted | 7.1 | a | −46.6 | a | 4.3 | d | |
Gloria/S. torvum | 7.1 | a | −46.6 | a | 4.1 | e | |
Gloria/S. aethiopicum | 7.1 | a | −46.8 | a | 4.9 | b | |
Gloria/S. macrocarpon | 7.2 | a | −46.7 | a | 5.2 | a | |
Biostimulant (B) | Control | 7.0 | b | −46.0 | a | 4.5 | b |
Inoculated | 7.2 | a | −47.4 | b | 4.7 | a | |
Significance | |||||||
T | NS | NS | *** | ||||
B | * | *** | *** | ||||
T × B | NS | NS | NS |
Treatments | P (mg 100 g−1 dw) | K (mg 100 g−1 dw) | Ca (mg 100 g−1 dw) | Mg (mg 100 g−1 dw) | |||||
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Type of plant (T) | Gloria not grafted | 543.3 | a | 339.7 | b | 108.7 | a | 19.1 | b |
Gloria self-grafted | 544.0 | a | 340.0 | b | 109.3 | a | 18.8 | b | |
Gloria/S. torvum | 541.7 | a | 343.6 | b | 109.0 | a | 14.5 | c | |
Gloria/S. aethiopicum | 522.9 | b | 301.9 | c | 98.8 | c | 20.6 | a | |
Gloria/S. macrocarpon | 499.9 | c | 348.2 | a | 106.3 | b | 19.2 | b | |
Biostimulant (B) | Control | 530.6 | a | 334.2 | a | 106.3 | a | 17.4 | b |
Inoculated | 530.1 | a | 335.1 | a | 106.5 | a | 19.5 | a | |
Significance | |||||||||
T | *** | *** | *** | *** | |||||
B | NS | NS | NS | *** | |||||
T × B | NS | NS | NS | NS |
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Consentino, B.B.; Sabatino, L.; Vultaggio, L.; Rotino, G.L.; La Placa, G.G.; D’Anna, F.; Leto, C.; Iacuzzi, N.; De Pasquale, C. Grafting Eggplant Onto Underutilized Solanum Species and Biostimulatory Action of Azospirillum brasilense Modulate Growth, Yield, NUE and Nutritional and Functional Traits. Horticulturae 2022, 8, 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8080722
Consentino BB, Sabatino L, Vultaggio L, Rotino GL, La Placa GG, D’Anna F, Leto C, Iacuzzi N, De Pasquale C. Grafting Eggplant Onto Underutilized Solanum Species and Biostimulatory Action of Azospirillum brasilense Modulate Growth, Yield, NUE and Nutritional and Functional Traits. Horticulturae. 2022; 8(8):722. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8080722
Chicago/Turabian StyleConsentino, Beppe Benedetto, Leo Sabatino, Lorena Vultaggio, Giuseppe Leonardo Rotino, Gaetano Giuseppe La Placa, Fabio D’Anna, Claudio Leto, Nicolò Iacuzzi, and Claudio De Pasquale. 2022. "Grafting Eggplant Onto Underutilized Solanum Species and Biostimulatory Action of Azospirillum brasilense Modulate Growth, Yield, NUE and Nutritional and Functional Traits" Horticulturae 8, no. 8: 722. https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8080722