effect of repeated short-term flooding on mycorrhizal survival in snap bean roots

• Published in: HortScience Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 598 - 602
• Main Authors: Sah, S, Reed, S, Jayachandran, K, Dunn, C, Fisher, J.B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria, VA American Society for Horticultural Science 01.06.2006
• Subjects: aerobic conditions; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Biological and medical sciences; duration; flooded conditions; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; green beans; length; microbial colonization; mortality; mycorrhizal fungi; Phaseolus vulgaris; roots; shoots; vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae; Short term; flood tolerance; Horticulture; Phycomycetes; spore germination; arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi; snap bean; Spores; Fungi; Dicotyledones; Angiospermae; Gigaspora margarita; Etrophospora columbiana; Thallophyta; Symbiosis; Gigaspora rosae; Germination; Tolerance; Flooding; Symbiont; Survival; Grain legume; Glomus intraradices; percent colonization; Endomycorrhiza; Leguminosae; Vegetable crop; Phaseolus vulgaris; Mycorrhiza; Spermatophyta; Colonization

Since arbuscular-mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are aerobic, symbiosis was not considered significant under flooded conditions. However, AM colonization of wetland plants is now believed more common than previously thought. In the humid tropics, storms that result in standing water for 24 hours or less are...