Pseudomonas fluorescens UM270 promotes growth and production in husk tomato

Abstract

One of the agroecological strategies that increases agricultural production is the use of bacterial inoculants, which lack the toxic effects that agrochemicals have. This work evaluated the effect of inoculation of the plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens UM270 on the cultivation cycle of husk tomato (Physalis ixocarpa) plants under field conditions (irrigation) in 2019. The results showed that plants inoculated with the rhizobacterium UM270 exhibited significant effects on plant height (14.64%), stem diameter (17.74%), biovolume index (35.14%) and fruit set production by 65.54%. This suggests that the strain UM270 of P. fluorescens is an excellent bioinoculant that improves the production of the husk tomato crop under field conditions.