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Arbuscular mycorrhiza of Berkheya coddii and other Ni-hyperaccumulating members of Asteraceae from ultramafic soils in South Africa

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The occurrence of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) in nickel-(Ni)-hyperaccumulating plants of the Asteraceae family growing on Ni-enriched ultramafic soils in South Africa was surveyed. All plants were found to be consistently colonised by AM fungi, with the abundant formation of arbuscules. Berkheya coddii, which is an important species for phytomining, formed well-developed mycorrhiza under greenhouse conditions. Plants cultivated under greenhouse conditions and inoculated with native fungi had a higher shoot biomass and Ni content than noninoculated plants. Inoculation of B. coddii with Glomus intraradices (BEG) was successful, but only plants with abundantly developed arbuscules showed increased yield. In other cases, shoot biomass was similar to noninoculated plants. Dense depositions localised on top of the arbuscules were often observed in roots collected from the field and from pot cultures.

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This study is part of a joint South African and Polish project supported by the South African National Research Foundation and State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), Warsaw, Poland. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Mpumalanga Parks Boards and the permission by Sappi Forestry to access the site in Agnes Mine, in particular Dr. Martin Van Rensburg and Dr. Marc Stalmans. Thanks are due to Dr. Anna Jurkiewicz (Institute of Botany of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) for linguistic comments on this manuscript and to Dr. Barbara Godzik (Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland) for analysis of Ni content in plant samples.

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    Katarzyna Turnau

  2. Materials Research Group, iThemba LABS, P.O. Box 722, 7129, Somerset West, South Africa

    Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz

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Turnau, K., Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, J. Arbuscular mycorrhiza of Berkheya coddii and other Ni-hyperaccumulating members of Asteraceae from ultramafic soils in South Africa. Mycorrhiza 13, 185–190 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-002-0213-6

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