Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal infection on the growth and reproduction of the annual legume Kummerowia striata growing in a nutrient-poor alluvial soil

• Takayuki Nakatsubo

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal infec

Abstract

A culture experiment was conducted to examine the effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi on the growth and reproduction of Kummerowia striata , a common annual legume of river floodplains of Japan. The plants were grown from seeds in pots with nutrient‐poor sandy soil collected from a fluvial bar. Arbuscular mycorrhizal infection increased the aboveground biomass, nodule weight, leaf nitrogen concentration and seed production. However, flowering occurred earlier in plants without AM fungi. These effects of AM fungi were insignificant in plants supplied with phosphate. These results suggest that AM fungi may influence the establishment of K. striata in nutrient‐poor, disturbed habitats.

Journal

• Ecological research / Ecological Society of Japan

  Ecological research / Ecological Society of Japan 12 (3), 231-237, 1997-12

  Tokyo : Springer Japan

Keywords

• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Details

• CRID: 1522825129838500480
• NII Article ID: 10002710221
• NII Book ID: AA10667816
• ISSN: 09123814
• ISSN: 14401703
• DOI: 10.1007/bf02529452
• NDL BIB ID: 4406453
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/4406453
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• Web Site: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1007/BF02529452/fullpdf
• Text Lang: en
• NDL Source Classification:
  • ZR1(科学技術--生物学)
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