the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizae on water use efficiency and some growth characteristics of maize were studied at three water regimes. an farm experiment was carried out using a split plot based randomized complete block design with 3 replications. main plot was under water deficit condition (100%fc, 66%fc, 33%fc) and sub plot included application of two species of mycorrhizae, m1:glomus m...

Mycorrhizal enhancement of drought resistance of two woody plant species, loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and rose (Rosa hybrida L. cv. Ferdy), occurred independently of phosphorus nutrition. Mycorrhizae tended to alter root morphology and carbon allocation patterns of shoots and roots. Increased drought resistance of mycorrhizal plants was in part attributed to drought-induced colonization by m...

BACKGROUND: Conversion of BLH wetland forests to agriculture is a primary cause of wetland loss in the southeastern United States (Figure 1). Restoration of BLH in abandoned agricultural fields, however, has had limited success. Low survival rates of planted trees are a consequence of several environmental factors such as water stress and herbivory. However, pilot studies of growth of seedlings...

The discovery of arbuscules in Aglaophyton major, an Early Devonian land plant, provides unequivocal evidence that mycorrhizae were established >400 million years ago. Nonseptate hyphac and arbuscules occur in a specialized meristematic region of the cortex that continually provided new cells for fungal infection. Arbuscules are morphologically identical to those of living arbuscular mycorrhiza...

Mycorrhizal fungi form a mutualistic symbiosis with plants and play an important role in regulating community and ecosystem functioning. These plant-fungal associations are geographically widespread, being found in terrestrial ecosystems ranging from deserts to lowland tropical rain forests to high latitudes. Studies of mycorrhizal community dynamics and activity are important in that these org...

Orchids have high economic value so that they are potential to be cultivated. The species most popular with people Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis. However, there major obstacles can affect orchid growth, namely viral infections. type of virus reported infect the is ORSV. This infection inhibit plant reduce flower quality marketability. There also symptoms in form mosaic, chlorotic, streak, necrosi...

Red chili is one of the strategic horticultural commodities in Indonesia. Improved cultivation technology required to increase production red chili. This research aim determines optimal dosage arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and concentration liquid organic fertilizer (LOF) growth yield The was designed a Factorial Randomized Complete Block. first factor mycorrhizae with three dosages levels...

introduction given the importance of nitrogen for improving the quantitative and qualitative yield of crops (rodrigues et al., 2006) and the need for application of chemical fertilizers in intensive agriculture to get the maximum production, nitrogen supply in adequate amounts by ecologically avowed resources is known as one of the main challenges during transition from conventional to organic ...

In a first experiment of soil contaminated with 137Cs, inoculation with a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizae enhanced the uptake of 137Cs by leek under greenhouse conditions, while no effect on the uptake by ryegrass was observed. The mycorrhizal infection frequency in leek was independent of whether the 137Cs-contaminated soil was inoculated with mycorrhizal spores or not. The lack of mycorrhiz...

—Mycorrhizal fungi are ubiquitous components of terrestrial ecosystems that can influence plant performance, abundance and diversity. Patterns of allocation to specific mycorrhizal fungal structures could provide a useful context for understanding belowground dynamics in response to changing resources. Specifically, increased soil nutrient availability has been predicted to favor plants with lo...