SynthesisMycorrhiza2014
Influence of arbuscular mycorrhiza on growth and reproductive response of plants under water deficit: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Mycorrhiza, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 181 citations in OpenAlex.
- Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improves plant biomass and nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients: a meta-analysis.BMC plant biology · 2024Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal effects on plants grown under salt stress.Mycorrhiza · 2014Pooled it
- Spore associated bacterial communities display patterns related to the arbuscular mycorrhizal host genotype in Mediterranean sand dunes.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Chaetomium, Chlonostachys, and Pseudogymnoascus isolates from tomato tissues significantly suppress Phytophthora infestans in tomato.PloS one · 2025Article
- Intraspecies variation in mycorrhizal response of Medicago sativa to Rhizophagus irregularis under abiotic stress.Mycorrhiza · 2024Article
- Review
- Molecular and biological characterization of a partitivirus fromThe Journal of general virology · 2023Article
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Alter Photosynthetic Responses to Drought in Seedlings ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Roots' Drought Adaptive Traits in Crop Improvement.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Impacts of Drought Stress and Mycorrhizal Inoculation on the Performance of Two Spring Wheat Cultivars.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediated Enhanced Biomass, Root Morphological Traits and Nutrient Uptake under Drought Stress: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Conservation agriculture based integrated crop management sustains productivity and economic profitability along with soil properties of the maize-wheat rotation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Use of Biostimulants: Towards Sustainable Approach to Enhance Durum Wheat Performances.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Multiple Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Consortia Enhance Yield and Fatty Acids ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Aspects, problems and utilization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) application as bio-fertilizer in sustainable agriculture.Current research in microbial sciences · 2022Review
- The Critical Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to Improve Drought Tolerance and Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza on Primary Metabolites in Phloem Exudates ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Physiological and biochemical responses of soybean plants inoculated with Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and Bradyrhizobium under drought stress.BMC plant biology · 2021Article
- An arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus alters switchgrass growth, root architecture, and cell wall chemistry across a soil moisture gradient.Mycorrhiza · 2021Article
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Abstract
Despite a large body of literature that describes the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on plant response to water deficit, reviews of these works have been mainly in narrative form, and it is therefore difficult to quantify the magnitude of the effect. We performed a meta-analysis to examine the effect of mycorrhizal colonization on growth and yield of plants exposed to water deficit stress. Data were compared in the context of annual vs. perennial plants, herbaceous vs. woody plants, field vs. greenhouse conditions, degree of stress, functional group, regions of plant growth, and mycorrhizal and host species. We found that, in terms of biomass measurements, mycorrhizal plants have better growth and reproductive response under water stress compared to non-mycorrhizal plants. When variables such as habit, life cycle, or water stress level are considered, differences in mycorrhizal effect on plant growth between variables are observed. While growth of both annual and perennial plants is improved by symbiosis, perennials respond more favorably to colonization than annuals. Overall, our meta-analysis reveals a quantifiable corroboration of the commonly held view that, under water-deficit conditions, plants colonized by mycorrhizal fungi have better growth and reproductive response than those that are not.
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