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The influence of host plant, nitrogen fertilization and fungicide application on the abundance and seasonal dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arable soils of northern Germany

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The present investigation examines whether the crop plant, increased nitrogen (N) fertilization and fungicide application influence the pattern of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (VAM) populations. For this purpose, two arable field locations in Lower Saxony (Hotteln and Langreder) were chosen and the formation of mycorrhiza, spore density, number of infectious propagules (MPN) and frequency of spore types within VAM populations were investigated. The influence of crop plants was examined over two cultivation periods (1986/1987 and 1987/1988) in Hotteln, comparing winter wheat, winter barley and sugar beet. The effects of increased N fertilization and fungicide application were investigated on winter wheat in Langreder in the cultivation period 1988 only. Both the frequency of mycorrhizal infection and the spore dynamics in soil differed with the crops grown. Spore density and MPN increased until harvesting when host plants (winter wheat, winter barley) were cultivated, whereas both diminished with a non-host plant (sugar beet). Different spore types increased or decreased, according to the plant species grown, but the predominating types of the location remained constant. Increased N fertilization caused marginal inhibition of mycorrhizal infection and sporulation on winter wheat, whereas both leaf and base application of fungicides resulted in minor increases in mycorrhizal colonization of roots and sporulation in soil. Both increased N fertilization and fungicide application distinctly decreased the sporulation of one type in May, but the characteristic compositions of the VAM populations remained unchanged.

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    S. Land, H. von Alten & F. Schönbeck

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Land, S., von Alten, H. & Schönbeck, F. The influence of host plant, nitrogen fertilization and fungicide application on the abundance and seasonal dynamics of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in arable soils of northern Germany. Mycorrhiza 2, 157–166 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00210585

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