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Selection of appropriate host plants used in trap culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in coalmine spoil, island forest and saline soils were enriched in pot culture with maize (Zea mays L.), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), white clover (Trifolium repens Linn.) and silverweed cinquefoil (Potentilla anserina L.). Based on spores, there were more species of AM fungi in the coalmine spoil (15 species, 3 genera), than in the forest soil (11 species, 4 genera) and the saline soil (5 species, 2 genera). In the trap cultures, the total of 28 species in Acaulospora, Gigaspora, Glomus, and Sclerocystis detected in the original soils were all recovered with at least one of the four trap plants. The highest spore and species numbers were recovered in trap cultures of T. repens inoculated with coalmine spoil. Glomus constrictum and Glomus multicaule were the dominant species associated with N. tabacum grown in saline soil and forest soil. The dominant species of AM fungi on the four hosts was Acaulospora mellea, which had over 90% of the spore incidence in pot trap culture in coalmine spoil. It is suggested that there be selectivity between host plants and AM fungi. The number of species of AM fungi detected was influenced by host plants under certain conditions and white clover was generally the optimal host plant to detect diversity of AM fungi.

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The authors are very grateful to Professor Bernie Dell in the School of Biology, Murdoch University, and Professor Lyn Abbott in the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, for suggesting revisions to the manuscript. This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30170622).

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Liu, R., Wang, F. Selection of appropriate host plants used in trap culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 13, 123–127 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-002-0207-4

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