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The aim of this field study was to examine how the development of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on coal mine spoil banks is affected by the presence of plants with different mycorrhizal status. A 3-year trial was conducted on the freshly created spoil bank Vršany, North-Bohemian coal basin, the Czech Republic. Three plant species – non-mycotrophic annual Atriplex sagittata, highly mycotrophic annual Tripleurospermum inodorum (both dominants of early stages of succession) and facultatively mycotrophic Arrhenatherum elatius (a perennial grass species of the later stage of succession) – were planted on 1 m2 plots over 3 years in different sequences that simulated the progress of succession on spoil banks. The development of AMF populations was monitored by evaluation of mycorrhizal colonization of plant roots and by measurement of the mycorrhizal inoculation potential (MIP) of soil. These two parameters were compared between plots inoculated with the mixture of three AMF isolates – Glomus mosseae BEG95, G. claroideum BEG96 and G. intraradices BEG140 – (“inoculated plots”) and plots exposed only to natural dispersal of AMF propagules (“uninoculated plots”). Highly colonized roots of plants together with a high MIP of soil in uninoculated plots were already found at the end of the first season, indicating rapid natural dispersal of AMF propagules. Root colonization of facultatively mycotrophic and non-mycotrophic plants in later years was affected by the mycorrhizal status of the previous plant species. The MIP of soil continuously increased throughout the experiment; in uninoculated plots, the MIP was temporarily decreased if plant species of higher mycotrophy were replaced by species of lower mycotrophy. The results lead to the conclusion that AMF colonize freshly formed sites very quickly and reproduce or accumulate in the soil, which leads to increasing MIP values. However, this infective potential can be decreased if non-mycotrophic plants predominate on the site.
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Abbreviations
- AMF:
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arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- MIP:
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mycorrhizal inoculation potential
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Financial support for this study was provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (grant no. 1M6798593901) and by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (grant no. AV0Z60050516).
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Püschel, D., Rydlová, J. & Vosátka, M. Does the sequence of plant dominants affect mycorrhiza development in simulated succession on spoil banks?. Plant Soil 302, 273–282 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-007-9480-5
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