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Metal-free cultivation of Glomus sp. BEG 140 isolated from Mn-contaminated soil reduces tolerance to Mn

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The ability of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi of different origin and cultivation history to tolerate excessive levels of manganese (Mn) was studied using hydroponic sand culture. Maize plants were colonised with two lineages of Glomus sp. BEG 140 from Mn-contaminated soil kept for 2 years in metal-free substrate or in the original soil. For comparison, the plants were also inoculated with Glomus intraradices BEG 75 from uncontaminated soil or were left uncolonised. Manganese stress was simulated by irrigation with nutrient solutions containing Mn at high concentrations (0.1, 0.5 and 1 mM); control plants were supplied with 3.8 µM Mn. Whereas the growth of maize plants was not suppressed by Mn at the concentrations examined, the development of AM fungi was negatively influenced by the higher Mn concentrations, with significant differences between isolates and cultivation lineages. The isolate Glomus sp. from Mn-contaminated soil showed higher tolerance to Mn than G. intraradices from uncontaminated soil. Colonisation by G. intraradices was reduced by almost 90% when irrigated with 1 mM Mn, whereas colonisation by the Glomus sp. lineage kept in contaminated soil still reached high levels (65% of the colonisation level of the control plants). The lineage of Glomus sp. cultured in inert metal-free substrate tolerated excessive Mn levels to a lesser extent than the lineage kept long-term in the original contaminated soil, but withstood Mn at higher concentrations than the G. intraradices from uncontaminated soil.

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This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic within the EU program COST 8.38 and by the Institutional Research Concept AV0Z6005908. The authors are grateful to Claire Boddington for commenting on the English.

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Malcová, R., Rydlová, J. & Vosátka, M. Metal-free cultivation of Glomus sp. BEG 140 isolated from Mn-contaminated soil reduces tolerance to Mn. Mycorrhiza 13, 151–157 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-002-0211-8

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