Seedling growth in the nursery and early field performance of three fast-growing tree species from Rubiaceae family, i.e., white jabon ( Neolamarckia cadamba ), red macrophylla , gempol Nauclea orientalis were tested by using different seedling media arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) treatments mixed-species tests. The experiment design test was laid out following a split-split plot randomized...

Background Molecular phylogeny has resolved the liverworts as the earliest-divergent clade of land plants and mosses as the sister group to hornworts plus tracheophytes, with alternative topologies resolving the hornworts as sister to mosses plus tracheophytes less well supported. The tracheophytes plus fossil plants putatively lacking lignified vascular tissue form the polysporangiophyte clade...

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between plant roots and fungi. They are divided into different categories depending on morphological characteristics and the identity of the fungi and plants (Smith & Read, 2008). In tropical rainforests, most tree species are associated with arbuscular mycorrhizas (AM) (Alexander, 1989). Neotropical tree species belonging to confirmed ectomycorrhizal (EcM...

In the presence of potato plants cv. Golden Wonder, Globodera pallida exhibited delayed in-soil hatch compared to that of G. rostochiensis, with significantly fewer G. pallida second-stage juvenile nematodes hatching in the first two weeks, though the difference disappeared after four weeks. Inoculation of potato plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi eliminated this delay in G. pallida hatch...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential plant nutrient and one of the most limiting in natural habitats as well as in agricultural production world-wide. The control of P acquisition efficiency and its subsequent uptake and translocation in vascular plants is complex. The physiological role of key cellular structures in plant P uptake and underlying molecular mechanisms are discussed in this review, wit...

There is increasing interest worldwide in the maintenance of soil quality and remediation strategies for management of soils contaminated with pollutants including heavy metals. The protective effects of arbuscular mycorrhizas on host plants under conditions of Zn contamination have raised the prospect of utilizing the mutualistic association in soil revegetation programmes, and consequently re...

The pot experiments were conducted in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics of Assam University, Silchar. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of dual inoculation of Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) (Glomus fasciculatum) and Rhizobium on the chlorophyll, nitrogen and phosphorus contents of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L.). The results revealed an overall increase in chl...