ArticleMycorrhiza2016
Evidence for functional redundancy in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and implications for agroecosystem management.
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- Cryptic functional diversity within a grass mycobiome.PloS one · 2023Article
- Above- and below-ground microbiome in the annual developmental cycle of two olive tree varieties.FEMS microbes · 2023Article
- Glomerales Dominate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities Associated with Spontaneous Plants in Phosphate-Rich Soils of Former Rock Phosphate Mining Sites.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- The Potential Applications of Commercial Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculants and Their Ecological Consequences.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Mediated Enhanced Biomass, Root Morphological Traits and Nutrient Uptake under Drought Stress: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Compatible and Incompatible Mycorrhizal Fungi With Seeds ofFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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- Specificity of assemblage, not fungal partner species, explains mycorrhizal partnerships of mycoheterotrophic Burmannia plants.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Is a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi better for plant growth than single-species inoculants?Mycorrhiza · 2019Article
- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Affects Plant Immunity to Viral Infection and Accumulation.Viruses · 2019Review
- Comparative measurements of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal responses to agricultural management practices.Mycorrhiza · 2019Article
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- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Natural Biofertilizers: Let's Benefit from Past Successes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Review
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Abstract
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi provide benefits to host plants and show functional diversity, with evidence of functional trait conservation at the family level. Diverse communities of AM fungi ought therefore to provide increased benefits to the host, with implications for the management of sustainable agroecosystems. However, this is often not evident in the literature, with diversity saturation at low species number. Growth and nutrient uptake were measured in onions in the glasshouse on AM-free phosphorus (P)-poor soil, inoculated with between one and seven species of AM fungi in all possible combinations. Inoculation with AM fungi increased shoot dry weight as well as P and copper concentrations in shoots but reduced the concentration of potassium and sulphur. There was little evidence of increased benefit from high AM fungal diversity, and increasing diversity beyond three species did not result in significantly higher shoot weight or P or Cu concentrations. Species of Glomeraceae had the greatest impact on growth and nutrient uptake, while species of Acaulospora and Racocetra did not have a significant impact. Failure to show a benefit from high AM fungal diversity in this and other studies may be the result of experimental conditions, with the benefits of AM fungal diversity only becoming apparent when the host plant is faced with multiple stress factors. Replicating the complex interactions between AM fungi, the host plant and their environment in the laboratory in order to fully understand these interactions is a major challenge to AM research.
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