1. Aptitude for mycorrhizal root colonization in Prunus rootstocks
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Cinta Calvet, Adriana Hernández-Dorrego, V. Estaún, Amelia Camprubi, Jorge Pinochet, and María Ángeles Moreno
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Prunus rootstocks ,biology ,Rosaceae ,Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi ,Horticulture ,biology.organism_classification ,Endophyte ,Stone fruit crops ,Glomus ,Prunus ,Botany ,Colonization ,Cultivar ,Mycorrhiza ,Rootstock - Abstract
20 Pags.- 1 Tabl.- 3 Figs. The definitive version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03044238, Eighteen Prunus rootstock cultivars were inoculated with three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under greenhouse conditions in order to evaluate their affinity for mycorrhizal colonization. The rootstocks were peach-almond hybrids, peaches, plums and cherries of Spanish, French and Italian origin. Mycorrhizal colonization was low in plants inoculated with Glomus mosseae (Nicol. and Gerd.) Gerdemann and Trappe, and Glomus etunicatum Becker and Gerdemann. In contrast, Glomus intraradices Schenck and Smith, proved to be the most infective endophyte, achieving the highest mycorrhizal colonization rate in most of the rootstocks evaluated. Species of Prunus insititia L. were the only botanical group to show a consistently high affinity for mycorrhizal colonization with G. intraradices., This work was financed by the Spanish Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, INIA, Grants SC97-055 and RTA01-091-C2-1.
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- 2004
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