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Yano-Melo, AM; Saggin, OJ; Lima, JM; Melo, NF; Maia, LC. 1999. Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the acclimatization of micropropagated banana plantlets. Mycorrhiza 9:119-123.
The effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on micropropagated
banana plantlets was evaluated during the acclimatization period.
Plants were inoculated with Acaulospora scrobiculata, Glomus
clarum or Glomus etunicatum. After cultivation in a greenhouse
for 3 months, height, leaf area, fresh weight and dry matter
of root and shoots, level of AMF colonization, nutrient level,
photosynthesis and transpiration rate, water potential and stomatal
conductance were measured. The number of AMF spores produced
in each treatment was also determined. Plantlets inoculated
with AMF had greater height, leaf area and fresh weight of shoots
and roots, as well as higher rates of photosynthesis and transpiration
than controls. Plants inoculated with Glomus were superior in
most of the evaluated parameters.
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