Enhancements of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on growth and 1 nitrogen acquisition of Chrysanthemum morifolium under salt stress

nitrogen acquisition of Chrysanthemum morifolium under salt stress 2 3 Yanhong Wang1*, Minqiang Wang1, Yan Li1, Aiping Wu2, Juying Huang3 4 5 1 State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University , Hangzhou 311300, 6 Zhejiang, China; [email protected] 7 2 Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Rural Ecosystem Health in Dongting Lake Area, Hunan 8 Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, Hunan, China; [email protected] 9 3 Institute of Environmental Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China; 10 [email protected] 11 12 *Correspondence: [email protected]; Telephone (office): +86-571-61105258 13 14 Running title: Effects of AM fungi and salt stress on Chrysanthemum morifolium 15 16 Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 30 October 2017 doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0183.v1