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Infectivity and effectiveness of Glomus intraradices on micropropagated plants

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Colonization by Glomus intraradices takes place very early within the root system of micropropagated plantlets of strawberry (var. avanta, elsanta), raspberry (var. himboqueen, Zeva I), and hortensia (var. leuchtfeuer). The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) did not colonize roots of the different hosts to the same extent, and considerable differences were observed between the varieties. The results reported here confirm that endomycorrhizal root colonization is affected by the host-fungus combination. The effects ranged from mutualistic (hortensia), through neutral (strawberry var. avanta, raspberry var. Zeva I) to negative (raspberry var. himboqueen and strawberry var. elsanta). Non-mycorrhized (control) plants of strawberry produced more runners than mycorrhized plants under controlled growth conditions (phytotron). Transfer of the potted plants to the field resulted in drastic alterations in overall growth and development within 4 weeks. Mycorrhized plants became healthy, and mycorrhized strawberry plants produced many stout runners. The number of the runners and their biomass were almost the same (var. avanta) and treated plants produced even more runners than the controls (var. elsanta). The authors have demonstrated the need to determine the specific effects of each species of AMF on individual prospective host plants prior to their utilization in the micropagation of plantlets.

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Varma, A., Schüepp, H. Infectivity and effectiveness of Glomus intraradices on micropropagated plants. Mycorrhiza 5, 29–37 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00204017

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