Field performance of different maize varieties in growth cores at natural and reduced mycorrhizal colonization: yield gains and possible fertilizer savings in relation to phosphorus application

• Published in: Plant and soil Vol. 450; no. 1-2; pp. 613 - 624
• Main Authors: Wang, Xin-Xin, van der Werf, Wopke, Yu, Yang, Hoffland, Ellis, Feng, Gu, Kuyper, Thomas W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.05.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agricultural production; Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Biomass; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Colonization; Cores; Corn; Crops; Ecology; Experiments; Fertilizers; Flowers & plants; Fungi; Hybrids; Inbreeding; landraces; Life Sciences; mycorrhizal fungi; Phosphorus; phosphorus fertilizers; Plant breeding; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Regular Article; soil; Soil Science & Conservation; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; China; Crop; In-growth cores; Mycorrhizal colonization; Genetic variation; Phosphorus; Maize; Landrace

Aims The benefits of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on yield and phosphorus (P) uptake of crops have commonly been studied by inoculating a single mycorrhizal fungal species in pot experiments. Yet, how the native AMF community affects the performance of different maize varieties under field con...