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Effect of soil liming and vesicular-arbuscular-mycorrhizal inoculation on the growth and micronutrient content of the teff plant

Plant and Soil volume 102, pages 257–259 (1987)Cite this article

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In a greenhouse experiment involving an acid soil teff [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] plants failed to grow unless the soil was limed or inoculated with either of two vesicular-arbuscular-mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi,Glomus mosseae orGlomus macrocarpum. Plant growth increased by liming and to a lesser extent by VAM fungal inoculation. Liming also enhanced root colonization by VAM fungi. Shoot micronutrient content generally increased as a result of inoculation, and decreased by increased lime applications.

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  1. International Livestock Centre for Africa, P O Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Tekalign Mamo

  2. Department of Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, AB9 2UE, Aberdeen, Scotland

    K. S. Killham

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Mamo, T., Killham, K.S. Effect of soil liming and vesicular-arbuscular-mycorrhizal inoculation on the growth and micronutrient content of the teff plant. Plant Soil 102, 257–259 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02370712

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Key words

  • Eragrostis tef
  • Glomus macrocarpum
  • Glomus mosseae
  • liming

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