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A plant growth system with root-free hyphal compartments was used to examine the interactions between a mycophagous Collembola (Folsomia candida Willem), dry yeast and an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus [Glomus caledonium (Nicol. & Gerd.) Trappe and Gerdemann] in terms of Collembola reproduction, AM-hyphal length and AM-hyphal P transport. Collembola reproduction was unaffected by AM mycelium, but a supplement of dry yeast increased the Collembola population size. The addition of dry yeast increased AM-hyphal P transport by increasing hyphal length. Collembola without yeast affected neither AM-hyphal growth nor AM-hyphal P transport, whereas Collembola with yeast decreased AM-hyphal P transport by 75% after 8 weeks. The hyphal density of G. caledonium remained unaffected by Collembola except after 4 weeks in combination with yeast, when a 33% reduction was observed. The results of this experiment show that the interaction between F. candida and the external mycelium of G. caledonium is limited under the conditions imposed.
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Accepted: 27 February 1996
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Larsen, J., Jakobsen, I. Interactions between a mycophagous Collembola, dry yeast and the external mycelium of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Mycorrhiza 6, 259–264 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005720050134
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s005720050134