Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIV, Issue 1
Written by Claudia-Loredana DRAGOMIR, Gheorghița HOZA, Alexandra BECHERESCU, Mihaela PARASCHIV, Claudia NICOLA, Mihai FRÎNCU, Liliana BĂDULESCU, Dorel HOZA
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the vegetables with the highest global production value. In an effort to achieve an increasing both quantity and quality production, researchers have been and are still looking for strategies to improve crop technology using various plant protection and stimulation products. Over the years, different technologies have been developed for cultivating and treating plants with Bacillus spp. in order to increase plant productivity but also to reduce residual elements in plants, thus helping to protect the consumer. The present study aims to highlight the effect of the microbial inoculants Rizobac and Bactilis on fruit quality indicators for the three tomato hybrids. Both microbial inoculations had a tendency to increase fruit size in the treated tomato hybrids, for total dry matter they ranged between 4.03% and 4.38% for Buffalosun F1, pH ranged from 4.07 to 4.12 for Kingset F1, from 4.05 to 4.18 for Bucanero F1 and from 4.01 to 4.21 for Buffalosun F1, when Bactilis was applied.
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