Identification and inoculation of fungal strains from Cedrus deodara rhizosphere involve in growth and alleviation of high nitrogen stress.

ABSTRACT: Cedrus deodara is economically and ethnobotanically an important forest tree and is shown to be at decline in Northern areas of Pakistan in recent years mainly due to high concentration of Nitrogen in forests. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) association forming fungi enables the forest trees to develop optimally by absorbing water from the rhizosphere through their absorptive hyphae and by making available the nutrients by mobilization of N and P from the organic substrates. This study was conducted to identify the ECM strains from C. deodara rhizosphere and to analyse the impact of high N load on the C. deodara seedlings to establish N critical load value for coniferous forests of Pakistan. Six new fungal strains were identified from the rhizosphere of C. deodara and were registered at GenBank (NCB

SUBMITTER: Jamil HMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6933180 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature