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AM Fungal Effect on the Growth of Selective Dicot and Monocot Plants

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A mycorrhiza (fungus root) is a symbiotic association of a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. In this association, the fungus colonizes the host plant’s roots, either intracellularly as in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi or extracellularly as in ectomycorrhizal fungi. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are ubiquitous in soil habitats and form beneficial symbiosis with the roots of angiosperms. The present work was focused on the arbuscular mycorrhizal status of selective dicot plants such as chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) and green pea (Pisum sativum L.) plants and selective monocot plants such as Triticum aestivum (L.) and Pennisetum glaucum and its beneficial effect on the efficiency of morphological and physiological changes in such plants grown under greenhouse condition. The investigation result reported that the fresh and dry weight, shoot and root length and chlorophyll and carotenoid content in the AM fungi-treated plants increased significantly compared to control plants.

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Sadhana, B., Monica, P.K., Siva Sankari, S. (2016). AM Fungal Effect on the Growth of Selective Dicot and Monocot Plants. In: Choudhary, D.K., Varma, A. (eds) Microbial-mediated Induced Systemic Resistance in Plants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0388-2_11

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