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Author: Dr. Vipin Parkash Bhardwaj
Title: Mycorrhizal studies on some of ethnobotanical plants of Himachal Pradesh
Degree: Ph. D.
Language: English
Year: 2004
Institute:Bitany Department, Kurukshetra University,Kurukshetra-136119, Haryana, India.
Supervisor: Prof. Ashok Aggarwal
Email: bhardwajvpnpark@rediffmail.com


Author: PEDRO MADEIRA ANTUNES
Title: DETERMINATION OF NUTRITIONAL AND SIGNALLING FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE TRIPARTITE SYMBIOSIS FORMED BY ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI, BRADYRHIZOBIUM AND SOYBEAN
Degree: PhD
Year: 2004
Language: English
Institution: The University of Guelph
Supervisor: Prof. M.J. Goss
e-mail: pantunes@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
Legumes form symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and rhizobia. The presence of one microbial symbiont has been recognized to affect the activity of the other, and the interaction of both can be detected through effects on the host plant. Such an interaction forms the so-called tripartite symbiosis, for which beneficial effects on nodulation and N2-fixation have been assumed to rely completely on increased supply of phosphorus to the plant through the mycorrhizas. After providing a working model for the establishment of the tripartite symbiosis, the main objective of this thesis was to investigate whether the process is regulated by phosphorus. A multi-year field experiment was conducted with soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), and indigenous AMF treatments were produced by either disrupting or leaving intact the extra-radical mycelium while the potential of bradyrhizobia (Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Kirchner) Jordan) was kept constant. The results indicated that even though nodulation was enhanced when the mycorrhizal colonization was elevated at 10 days after emergence, N2 fixation was not affected at later periods of growth. Nevertheless, the P levels in soil and all plant parts, as well as the soil acid and alkaline phosphatase activity were similar irrespective of AMF treatment, showing that the establishment of the tripartite symbiosis was not regulated by P. Therefore, communication between the symbionts was clearly the next factor to be tested and, for the remainder of the thesis, the objective was to determine which flavonoids play a role in the establishment of the tripartite symbiosis. Patterns of root accumulation of specific flavonoids and the extent to which early effects of the tripartite symbiosis would have at later periods of growth were evaluated over three experiments under controlled environmental conditions. The root accumulation of the flavonoids daidzein, genistein and coumestrol diminished in response to the symbionts and N2 fixation was enhanced by the tripartite symbiosis. Furthermore, AMF with different colonization strategies had different impacts on the early development of the tripartite symbiosis but N2 fixation was identical irrespective of the fungus present.


Author: Keunho Cho
Title: Mycorrhizal symbiosis and the response of sorghum plants to combined drought and saline stresses
Degree: M.S.
Year: 2004
Language: English
Institution: University of Tennessee, USA
Supervisor: Bob Augé


ANTOINE LE QUÉRÉ: Genome and Transcriptome Analyzes in the Ectomycorrhizal Fungus Paxillus involutus. PhD thesis, Microbial Ecology, Lund University, Sweden.


LARS OLA NILSSON: External Mycelia of Mycorrhizal fungi - responses to elevated N in forest ecosystems. PhD thesis, Microbial Ecology, Lund University, Sweden.


Author: Zaklina Marjanovic
Title: Impact of mycorrhiza formation and drought stress on the expression and function of aquaporins in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. x Populus tremuloides Mich.)
Degree: PhD
Year: 2004
Language: English
Institution: Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Physiologishe Oekologie der Pflanzen, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tuebingen, Deutschland
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ruediger Hampp and Dr Uwe Nehls
e-mail: zaklina.marjanovic@uni-tuebingen.de ; zaklina@ibiss.bg.ac.yu


Author: Dr. Rajendra R. Prabhu
Title: "SURVEY OF SOILS OF MUMBAI AND ADJOINING AREAS FOR NATIVE VESICULAR ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA VAM, THEIR MULTIPLICATION AND EFFECT OF THEIR INOCULATION ON LOCAL CROPS AS BIOFERTILIZER".
Degree: Ph.D.
Language: English
Year: 2004
Institute: Seth L.U. and Sir M.V. College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Andheri (East), Mumbai-400 060. University of Mumbai.
Supervisor: Dr. R.M. Mulani
Email: rajprabhu2002@yahoo.com ; rajprabhu2005@rediffmail.com


Author: Seema Sharma
Title: Mycorrhizal studies on some economically important plants with special reference to teak and bamboo.
Degree: Ph.D
Year: 2004
Language: English
Institution: Plant Pathology And Microbiology Laboratory, Botany Department, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
Supervisor: Prof. Ashok Aggarwal, Botany Department, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
E-mail: seemarakesh99@yahoo.com

 

 
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