Establishment, persistence and effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculants in the field revealed using molecular genetic tracing and measurement of yield components.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Pellegrino, Elisa; Turrini, Alessandra; Gamper, Hannes A.; Cafà, Giovanni; Bonari, Enrico; Young, J. Peter W.; Giovannetti, Manuela
- Source
- New Phytologist. May2012, Vol. 194 Issue 3, p810-822. 13p. 3 Diagrams, 3 Charts, 1 Graph.
- Subject
- *VESICULAR-arbuscular mycorrhizas
*MICROBIAL inoculants
*PLANT molecular genetics
*PLANT inoculation
*GENETIC markers in plants
*RIBOSOMAL DNA
- Language
- ISSN
- 0028-646X
Inoculation of crop plants by non-native strains of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi as bio-enhancers is promoted without clear evidence for symbiotic effectiveness and fungal persistence. To address such gaps, the forage legume Medicago sativa was inoculated in an agronomic field trial with two isolates of Funneliformis mosseae differing in their nuclear rDNA sequences from native strains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]