ArticleMycorrhiza2016
Interactions between biochar and mycorrhizal fungi in a water-stressed agricultural soil.
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- Deciphering the morpho-physiological and biochemical response of sunflower hybrids with the application of biochar and slow-release nitrogen fertilizers under drought stress for sustainable crop production.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Diversity and drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizosphere soil of wine grape in the eastern foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia of China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Structure and composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community associated with mango.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Co-application of biochar and phosphorus increases soil microbial biomass, mycorrhizal colonization, growth, and nutrition of subterranean clover.AIMS microbiology · 2025Article
- Long-Term Application of Biochar Mitigates Negative Plant-Soil Feedback by Shaping Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fungal Pathogens.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi alleviates salt stress inFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- The critical role of biochar to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought and salinity stress in plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Biochar on Growth, Nutrient Absorption, and Physiological Properties of Maize (Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Biochar-based fertilizers and their applications in plant growth promotion and protection.3 Biotech · 2022Review
- Beneficial Features of Biochar and Arbuscular Mycorrhiza for Improving Spinach Plant Growth, Root Morphological Traits, Physiological Properties, and Soil Enzymatic Activities.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Co-application of a biosolids product and biochar to two coarse-textured pasture soils influenced microbial N cycling genes and potential for N leaching.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- The mechanisms of biochar interactions with microorganisms in soil.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2020Review
- Biochar phosphorus concentration dictates mycorrhizal colonisation, plant growth and soil phosphorus cycling.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Soil Matrix Determines the Outcome of Interaction Between Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Biochar forFrontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Biochar may alleviate plant water stress in association with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi but research has not been conclusive. Therefore, a glasshouse experiment was conducted to understand how interactions between AM fungi and plants respond to biochar application under water-stressed conditions. A twin chamber pot system was used to determine whether a woody biochar increased root colonisation by a natural AM fungal population in a pasture soil ('field' chamber) and whether this was associated with increased growth of extraradical AM fungal hyphae detected by plants growing in an adjacent ('bait') chamber containing irradiated soil. The two chambers were separated by a mesh that excluded roots. Subterranean clover was grown with and without water stress and harvested after 35, 49 and 63 days from each chamber. When biochar was applied to the field chamber under water-stressed conditions, shoot mass increased in parallel with mycorrhizal colonisation, extraradical hyphal length and shoot phosphorus concentration. AM fungal colonisation of roots in the bait chamber indicated an increase in extraradical mycorrhizal hyphae in the field chamber. Biochar had little effect on AM fungi or plant growth under well-watered conditions. The biochar-induced increase in mycorrhizal colonisation was associated with increased growth of extraradical AM fungal hyphae in the pasture soil under water-stressed conditions.
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