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Plant health effects of Acremonium root endophytes compared to those of arbuscular mycorrhiza

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Roots: The Dynamic Interface between Plants and the Earth

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences ((DPSS,volume 101))

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Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and flax (Linum usitatissimum) plants inoculated with the wilt fungi Fusarium oxysporum. f. sp. lycopersici or f. sp. lini were pre-inoculated with non-mycorrhizal (Acremonium ochraceum, Acremonium strictum) or arbuscular mycorrhizal (Glomus intraradices H-510 and BEG-148; Glomus etunicatum H-139) root endophytes. Wilt incidence and severity in flax and tomato were clearly reduced by the endophytes. Split-root experiments revealed that the Acremonium spp. must be present in the root systems permanently to successfully maintain systemic wilt protection. Additionally, in tomato plants an Acremonium-induced tylosis is described for the first time, indicating a possible pre-infectional resistance mechanism towards a later Fusarium-infection. Interactions between the endophytic fungi after dual infections could hinder their own development only in one single experiment, where mycorrhiza was reduced.

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    Gisela Grunewaldt-Stöcker & Henning von Alten

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Grunewaldt-Stöcker, G., von Alten, H. (2003). Plant health effects of Acremonium root endophytes compared to those of arbuscular mycorrhiza. In: Abe, J. (eds) Roots: The Dynamic Interface between Plants and the Earth. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 101. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2923-9_44

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