ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2018
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Negatively Affect Nitrogen Acquisition and Grain Yield of Maize in a N Deficient Soil.
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- Seasonal variation and drought effects on colonization and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and dark septate endophytes in desert plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Levels on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Associated Bacterial Communities in Culture.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effects of Legume‒Cereal Rotation on Sorghum Rhizosphere Microbial Community Structure and Nitrogen-Cycling Functions.MicrobiologyOpen · 2025Article
- Influence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Nitrogen Dynamics DuringMicroorganisms · 2025Article
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- Effect of AMF Inoculation on Reducing Excessive Fertilizer Use.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Synergistic NScientific reports · 2023Article
- Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Regulating Growth, Enhancing Productivity, and Potentially Influencing Ecosystems under Abiotic and Biotic Stresses.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Functional Profile and Antioxidant Capacity of Tomato Fruits Are Modulated by the Interaction between Microbial Biostimulants, Soil Properties, and Soil Nitrogen Status.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance phosphate uptake and alter bacterial communities in maize rhizosphere soil.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- The mycorrhiza-specific ammonium transporter ZmAMT3;1 mediates mycorrhiza-dependent nitrogen uptake in maize roots.The Plant cell · 2022Article
- Matching of Nitrogen Enhancement and Photosynthetic Efficiency by Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Maize (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Analysis of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculant Benchmarks.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil properties jointly influence plant C, N, and P stoichiometry in West Lake, Hangzhou.RSC advances · 2020Article
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Abstract
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a crucial role in enhancing the acquisition of immobile nutrients, particularly phosphorus. However, because nitrogen (N) is more mobile in the soil solution and easier to access by plants roots, the role of AMF in enhancing N acquisition is regarded as less important for host plants. Because AMF have a substantial N demand, competition for N between AMF and plants particularly under low N condition is possible. Thus, it is necessary to know whether or not AMF affect N uptake of plants and thereby affect plant growth under field conditions. We conducted a 2-year field trial and pot experiments in a greenhouse by using benomyl to suppress colonization of maize roots by indigenous AMF at both low and high N application rates. Benomyl reduced mycorrhizal colonization of maize plants in all experiments. Benomyl-treated maize had a higher shoot N concentration and content and produced more grain under field conditions. Greenhouse pot experiments showed that benomyl also enhanced maize growth and N concentration and N content when the soil was not sterilized, but had no effect on maize biomass and N content when the soil was sterilized but a microbial wash added, providing evidence that increased plant performance is at least partly caused by direct effects of benomyl on AMF. We conclude that AMF can reduce N acquisition and thereby reduce grain yield of maize in N-limiting soils.
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