Symbiotic Interaction Enhances the Recovery of Endangered Tree Species in the Fragmented Maulino Forest.

ABSTRACT: Beneficial plant-associated microorganisms, such as fungal endophytes, are key partners that normally improve plant survival under different environmental stresses. It has been shown that microorganisms from extreme environments, like those associated with the roots of Antarctica plants, can be good partners to increase the performance of crop plants and to restore endangered native plants. Nothofagus alessandrii and N. glauca, are among the most endangered species of Chile, restricted to a narrow and/or limited distributional range associated mainly to the Maulino forest in Chile. Here we evaluated the effect of the inoculation with a fungal consortium of root endophytes isolated from the Antarctic host plant Colobanthus quitensis on the ecophysiological performance [

SUBMITTER: Torres-Diaz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8081837 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature