Fertigation and Azospirillum in the nutrition of Agave angustifolia vitroplants in a nursery
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https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v17i3.4325Keywords:
nutrient analysis, nutrient content, nutrient solution, plant growth-promoting bacteria, plant micropropagationAbstract
Humanity seeks to increase the productivity and quality of crops that provide basic or economic benefits. The work aimed to evaluate the development of Agave angustifolia vitroplants fertigated with different nutrient aliquots and inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense from 2023 to 2024. In an experiment with a 3 × 2 × 3 factorial experimental design, the factors were: 1) initial plant size (small, medium, and large); 2) inoculation with the bacterium A. brasilense and without inoculation; and 3) concentrations of the Steiner nutrient solution (SN) (0, 75 and 100%). After 20 months, morphological characteristics and the amount of nutrients in the leaves were evaluated. Plants with a larger initial size maintained differences in growth compared to medium and small plants. The plants fertigated with 100% SN had a height of 51 cm (18.6%), a rosette diameter of 85.8 cm (25.8%) and a stem diameter of 9.6 cm (65.5%). Their largest leaf was 66 cm (13.7%), and their leaves contained 6 987 ppm N (9.6%), 1 775 ppm P (11%), and 3 093 ppm K (-25.8%) compared to plants irrigated only with water. The plants inoculated with the bacterium had more leaves, a larger rosette diameter, greater leaf length, greater root volume and greater stem and root dry weight than non-inoculated plants. The micropropagated A. angustifolia plants that were fertigated in a nursery and in parallel, inoculated with A. brasilense reached adequate sizes for transplantation in the field.
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