Growth responses of Zea mays and Glycine max to colonization by mixture of combination of three species of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, two species of Glomus and a species of Scutellospora were compared. In Zea mays, plants inoculated with single species of AM fungi showed significantly higher in dry weight than non-mycorrhizal plant for all three AM fungal species. Also, growth of plants...

As the diversity of plants increases in an ecosystem, so does resource competition for soil nutrients, a process that mycorrhizal fungi can mediate. The influence of mycorrhizal fungi on plant biodiversity likely depends on the strength of the symbiosis between the plant and fungi, the differential plant growth responses to mycorrhizal inoculation, and the transfer rate of nutrients from the fu...

A plant biostimulant is any substance or microorganism applied to plants with the aim to enhance nutrition efficiency, abiotic stress tolerance and/or crop quality traits, regardless of its nutrients content. By extension, plant biostimulants also designate commercial products containing mixtures of such substances and/or microorganisms. The definition proposed by this article is supported by a...

Although no specific role has been demonstrated for ethylene during Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, recent results suggest its participation in the regulation of the AM. Analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in the abscisic acid (ABA)-deficient tomato sitiens mutant has shown that ABA deficiency induced ethylene production. It has also been suggested that one of the mechanisms ...

This study investigated whether mycorrhizal colonization influences heavy metal uptake by maize. Two experiments were carried out. In the first, 15 commercially available maize varieties cultured on industrial waste substratum and inoculated or not with Glomus intraradices, were treated one week before harvest with EDTA, a chelating agent known to mobilize heavy metals in soil. Estimation of my...

We studied carbon and nitrogen allocation in mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings grown in a semi-hydroponic system with nitrogen as the growth limiting factor. Three ectomycorrhizal fungi were compared: one pioneer species (Thelephora terrestris Ehrh.: Fr.) and two late-stage fungi (Suillus bovinus (L.: Fr.) O. Kuntze, and Scleroderma citrinum Pers.). By g...

Nursery grown seedlings of Pinus virginiana with infection by Pisolithus tinctorius (Pt) versus seedlings with naturally occurring mycorrhizae were used in greenhouse experiments to determine the influence of mycorrhizae on manganese and zinc uptake and distribution in seedlings. Unamended Pt mycorrhizal seedlings and those treated with 48.0 mg Mn/pot over a 2-week period accumulated significan...

Mycorrhizal fungi greatly enhanced the ability of plants to take up phosphorus and other nutrients those are relatively immobile and exist in low concentration in the soil solution. Fungi can be important in the uptake of other nutrients by the host plant. Zinc nutrition is most commonly reported as being influenced by the association, although uptake of copper (Cu) , iron, N, K, Ca and Mg has ...

The objective of this research was to study the root and nodule responses to drought of mycorrhizal or nitrogen-fixing alfalfa plants in relation to root cytokinin levels. Double symbiotic plants showed significantly higher root and nodule activities during drought that may be related to smaller decreases in cytokinin content of mycorrhizal plants.

We propose that mycorrhizal colonization of roots alters nonhydraulic root to shoot communication of soil drying. Split-root rose (Rosa hybrida L. cv Samantha) plants-one side of the root system colonized by Glomus intraradices Schenck & Smith, the other side nonmycorrhizal-displayed different stomatal conductances upon partial drying, depending upon whether mycorrhizal or nonmycorrhizal roots ...