title: Evaluation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi capacity to alleviate abiotic stress of olive (Olea europaea L.) plants at different transplant conditions.
abstract: The capacity of roots to sense soil physicochemical parameters plays an essential role in maintaining plant nutritional and developmental functions under abiotic stress. These conditions generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant tissues causing oxidation of proteins and lipids among others. Some plants have developed adaptive mechanisms to counteract such adverse conditions such as symbiotic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). AMF enhance plant growth and improve transplant survival by protecting host plants against environmental stresses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the alleviation of transplanting stress by two strains of Rhizophagus irregularis (GC2 and GA5) in olive. Our results show that olive plants have an additional energetic expense in growth due to an adaptative response to the growing stage and to the mycorrhizal colonization at the first transplant. However, at the second transplant the coinoculation improves olive plant growth and protects against oxidative stress followed by the GA5-inoculation. In conclusion, a combination of two AMF strains at the beginning of olive propagation produces vigorous plants successfully protected in field cultivation even with an additional cost at the beginning of growth.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: María Josefina
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bompadre
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pérgola
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fernández Bidondo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Roxana Paula
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Colombo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Vanesa Analía
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Silvani
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Micología Molecular, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Roque Sáenz Peña 352 Bernal, B1876BXD Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Alejandro Guillermo
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Pardo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Profesor Albareda 1, 18008 Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan Antonio
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ocampo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, 4 Piso, Pabellón 2, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Alicia Margarita
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Godeas
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D060387:Ascorbate Peroxidases / Q000378:metabolism; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D005658:Fungi / Q000502:physiology; D008315:Malondialdehyde / Q000378:metabolism; D038821:Mycorrhizae / Q000502:physiology*; D031658:Olea / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000254:growth & development / Q000382:microbiology*; D018520:Plant Shoots / Q000378:metabolism; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000378:metabolism; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D008315:Malondialdehyde; D060387:Ascorbate Peroxidases; D002374:Catalase; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase