The sweet bell pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.) is a vegetable of the Solanaceae family that is widespread in the American tropics, which indicates that, despite its adaptation to diverse climatic conditions, it is demanding at warm temperatures, even more so than other commercial Solanaceae.
▶ This means that our country, imminently tropical, has edaphoclimatic potential for the large-scale establishment of this agricultural line of national and international importance; in fact, it is an item of national pride due to its certification of origin. Therefore, stimulating the production and yield of sweet peppers could contribute, among other key aspects of the national economy, to the generation of foreign exchange.
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In this regard, it should be noted that, although there are interesting studies that demonstrate the benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal association in plants of the genus Capsicum, including studies using C. chinense species as host.
There is no report in which its effect on Pepón sweet bell pepper plants has been evaluated. In this sense, the present research aims to answer what will be the influence of thirteen arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculants on the growth and flowering of Pepón sweet bell pepper plants.
The following guiding questions were elucidated: Under greenhouse conditions, will arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculants (AM), native and introduced, be able to: colonize the roots of sweet bell pepper seedlings of Pepón variety?.
In addition to the following questions: favor the survival of these seedlings, increasing their growth and flowering variables; show similar levels of infectivity and effectiveness in Pepón bell pepper plants; will the isolate of native AM fungi be more efficient in increasing the growth and flowering of Pepón bell pepper plants than the introduced AM inoculants; will the mixture of some inoculants have a synergistic or antagonistic influence; will the mixture of some inoculants have a synergistic or antagonistic influence?.
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