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Ferruzca-Campos EA, Rico-Chavez AK, Guevara-González RG, Urrestarazu M, Cunha-Chiamolera TPL, Reynoso-Camacho R, Guzmán-Cruz R. Biostimulant and Elicitor Responses to Cricket Frass ( Acheta domesticus) in Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum L.) under Protected Conditions. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:1327. [PMID: 36987015 PMCID: PMC10059765 DOI: 10.3390/plants12061327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Agriculture in the current century is seeking sustainable tools in order to generate plant production systems with minimal negative environmental impact. In recent years it has been shown that the use of insect frass is an option to be used for this purpose. The present work studied the effect of low doses (0.1, 0.5, and 1.0% w/w) of cricket frass (Acheta domesticus) in the substrate during the cultivation of tomatos under greenhouse conditions. Plant performance and antioxidant enzymatic activities were measured in the study as explicative variables related to plant stress responses in order to determine possible biostimulant or elicitor effects of cricket frass treatments during tomato cultivation under greenhouse conditions. The main findings of this study indicated that tomato plants responded in a dose dependent manner to cricket frass treatments, recalling the hormesis phenomenon. On the one hand, a 0.1% (w/w) cricket frass treatment showed typical biostimulant features, while on the other hand, 0.5 and 1.0% treatments displayed elicitor effects in tomato plants under evaluated conditions in the present study. These results support the possibility that low doses of cricket frass might be used in tomato cultivation (and perhaps in other crops) for biostimulant/elicitor input into sustainable production systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ema Alejandra Ferruzca-Campos
- Centro de Investigaciones Aplicadas en Biosistemas (CIAB), Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus Amazcala, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Carr. Chichimequillas-Amazcala Km 1 S/N, Amazcala, Querétaro 76265, Mexico
| | - Amanda Kim Rico-Chavez
- Centro de Investigaciones Aplicadas en Biosistemas (CIAB), Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus Amazcala, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Carr. Chichimequillas-Amazcala Km 1 S/N, Amazcala, Querétaro 76265, Mexico
| | - Ramón Gerardo Guevara-González
- Centro de Investigaciones Aplicadas en Biosistemas (CIAB), Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus Amazcala, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Carr. Chichimequillas-Amazcala Km 1 S/N, Amazcala, Querétaro 76265, Mexico
| | - Miguel Urrestarazu
- Centro de Investigación en Agrosistemas Intensivos Mediterraneos y Biotecnología Agroalimentaria (CIAIMBITAL), Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
| | - Tatiana Pagan Loeiro Cunha-Chiamolera
- Centro de Investigación en Agrosistemas Intensivos Mediterraneos y Biotecnología Agroalimentaria (CIAIMBITAL), Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
| | - Rosalía Reynoso-Camacho
- Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma Querétaro, Cerro de las Campanas S/N, Querétaro 76010, Mexico
| | - Rosario Guzmán-Cruz
- Cuerpo Académico de Bioingeniería Básica y Aplicada, Facultad de Ingeniería, Campus Amazcala, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Carr. Chichimequillas-Amazcala Km 1 S/N, Amazcala, Querétaro 76265, Mexico
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