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Douglas fir seedlings grown under aseptic conditions in a peat-vermiculite substrate were inoculated with four pairs of ectomycorrhizal fungi to assess the relative inoculum dosages needed to establish two mycorrhizal fungi simultaneously in the same root system. The dual fungal combinations tested were: Pisolithus arhizus + Rhizopogon subareolatus, P. arhizus + R. roseolus, Laccaria bicolor + P. arhizus and L. bicolor + R. subareolatus. A total of 12 ml of inocula per plant was applied at the rates: 0+12, 3+9, 6+6, 9+3, 12+0, and 0+0 (v+v) for each combination. After 3 months growth, the number of mycorrhizas and uninfected short roots as well as the total plant biomass produced were recorded. Inoculations were successful with the fungal combinations P. arhizus + R. subareolatus and L. bicolor + P. arhizus. Plants developed P. arhizus and R. subareolatus mycorrhizas only at the rate 9Pa + 3Rs; at other rates tested, only monospecific mycorrhizas were formed. Plants developed L. bicolor and P. arhizus mycorrhizas at the three rates containing both fungi. L. bicolor behaved as an aggressive root colonizer and its level of root colonization remained constant at increasing rates of P. arhizus inoculum. L. bicolor displaced R. subareolatus at all inocula rates. P. arhizus displaced R. roseolus except at the rate 3Pa + 9Rr, with only a low number of mycorrhizas formed by either fungus. Total plant biomass was significantly increased by the presence of any fungal combination up to four times the values for uninoculated controls. P. arhizus and R. subareolatus were more effective in promoting plant growth and stimulating short root formation than either L. bicolor or R. roseolus.
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Parladé, J., Alvarez, I.F. Coinoculation of aseptically grown Douglas fir with pairs of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 3, 93–96 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00210699
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