As many already know, the content of capsicin, an alkaloid with a spicy flavor that is low in sweet peppers, has a high content of carotenes, which allows the fruit to be used for the production of colorants at a commercial level, as well as powders, sauces and pickles.
▶ The unquestionable socioeconomic importance of the sweet bell pepper crop and the need to increase its production in the context of sustainable agriculture, fully justifies the present research in which arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis could represent a powerful biotechnological strategy to favor its growth and production.
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In addition, the low predictability of the beneficial effects of AMs gives an idea of the imminent need to carry out a greater number of studies on the functional diversity of AMF, which will generate significant contributions to the state of the art on the knowledge of the functioning of this symbiosis in order to increase its effectiveness as a bioinput with low negative impact on the natural factors that determine the production and yield levels of agroecosystems.
This would broaden the possibility of the successful use of Glomeromycetes for the improvement of crops of socio-economic interest such as sweet bell pepper of multiple varieties.
▶ The presence, in terms of spore richness and abundance, colonization and beneficial effects of AMF have been studied in different species of ecological and agricultural interest, so the influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the flavor of chili bell pepper fruits is widely known.