AM and DSE colonization of invasive plants in urban habitat: a study of Upper Silesia (southern Poland).

ABSTRACT: Interactions between invasive plants and root endophytes may contribute to the exploration of plant invasion causes. Twenty plant species of alien origin differing in invasiveness were studied in terms of status and typical structures of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and dark septate endophytes (DSE) in urban habitats in Silesia Upland (southern Poland). We observed that 75 % of investigated plant species were mycorrhizal. The arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) of most plant species was of the Arum morphology. The nearly 100 % mycorrhizal frequency, high intensity of AM colonization within root cortex and the presence of arbuscules in all mycorrhizal plant species indicate that the investigated species are able to establish AM associations in the secondary range and urban habitats. DSE were present

SUBMITTER: Gucwa-Przepiora E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4909803 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature