Evaluating the stability of nursery-established arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal associations in apple rootstocks.

ABSTRACT: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are promoted as commercial bioinoculants for sustainable agriculture. Little is known, however, about the survival of AMF inoculants in soil and their impacts on native or pre-established AMF communities in root tissue. The current study was designed to assess the stability of pre-existing/nursery-derived AMF in apple rootstocks after being planted into soil containing a known community of AMF with a limited number of species. Root-associated endophytic communities (bacteria and fungi) are known to differ depending on apple rootstock genotype. Thus, an additional aim of this study was to explore the effect of apple rootstock genotype on AMF community structure. A greenhouse experiment was conducted in which a variety of apple rootstock genotypes (G.890, G

SUBMITTER: Zhang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11784189 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature