Metal-non-tolerant ecotypes of ectomycorrhizal fungi can protect plants from cadmium pollution.

ABSTRACT: The application of mycorrhizal fungi as a bioaugmentation technology for phytoremediation of heavy metal (HM) contaminated soil has attracted widespread attention. In order to explore whether the adaptation of Pinus massoniana (P. massoniana) to metal polluted soil depends on the metal adaptation potential of their associated ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF), we evaluated the cadmium (Cd) tolerance of 10 ecotypes of Cenococcum geophilum (C. geophilum) through a membership function method, and P. massoniana seedlings were not (NM) or inoculated by Cd non-tolerant type (JaCg144), low-tolerant (JaCg32, JaCg151) and high-tolerant (JaCg205) isolates of C. geophilum were exposed to 0 and 100 mg·kg^-1 for 3 months. The result showed that, each ecoty

SUBMITTER: Zhang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731278 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature