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The multifarious problems created by arsenic (As), for collective environment and human health, serve a cogent case for searching integrative agricultural approaches to attain food security. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) acts as a sponge for heavy metal(loid)s accretion, specifically As, due to anaerobic flooded growth conditions facilitating its uptake. Acclaimed for their positive impact on plant growth, development and phosphorus (P) nutrition, 'mycorrhizas' are able to promote stress tolerance. Albeit, the metabolic alterations underlying Serendipita indica (S. indica; S.i) symbiosis-mediated amelioration of As stress along with nutritional management of P are still understudied. By using biochemical, RT-qPCR and LC-MS/MS based untargeted metabolomics approach, rice roots of ZZY-1 and GD-6 colonized by S. indica, which were later treated with As (10 µM) and P (50 µM), were compared with non-colonized roots under the same treatments with a set of control plants. The responses of secondary metabolism related enzymes, especially polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activities in the foliage of ZZY-1 and GD-6 were enhanced 8.5 and 12-fold, respectively, compared to their respective control counterparts. The current study identified 360 cationic and 287 anionic metabolites in rice roots, and the commonly enriched pathway annotated by Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis was biosynthesis of phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan, which validated the results of biochemical and gene expression analyses associated with secondary metabolic enzymes. Particularly under As+S.i+P comparison, both genotypes exhibited an upregulation of key detoxification and defense related metabolites, including fumaric acid, L-malic acid, choline, 3,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid, to name a few. The results of this study provided the novel insights into the promising role of exogenous P and S. indica in alleviating As stress.
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Arsenic , Oryza , Phosphorus , Soil Pollutants , Humans , Arsenic/toxicity , Chromatography, Liquid , Oryza/metabolism , Oryza/microbiology , Phosphorus/analysis , Plant Roots/metabolism , Secondary Metabolism , Tandem Mass Spectrometry , Soil Pollutants/toxicityABSTRACT
O objetivo com o presente estudo foi verificar a influência de diferentes proporções de turfa vermelha e areia na composição do substrato sobre a colonização radicular por fungos micorríozicos arbusculares (FMA) e no desenvolvimento vegetativo de aveia branca. O experimento foi conduzido em casa de vegetação e os tratamentos foram constituídos a partir de combinações de turfa vermelha (T) e areia (A): 100%A; 25%T+75%A; 50%T+50%A; 75%T+25%A; 100%T. Dez sementes de aveia foram semeadas por vaso plástico preto (350ml de volume), contendo 5 gramas de inóculo de Glomus clarum. Quarenta e três dias após a semeadura da aveia, foram realizadas avaliações de desenvolvimento vegetativo e colonização micorrízica do sistema radicular das plantas, através da presença de estruturas, como hifas, arbúsculos e vesículas. Substratos com maior quantidade de turfa induziram maior desenvolvimento da parte aérea e maior qualidade de raízes (QR), em termos de volume de raízes. Entretanto, a presença da turfa acima de 50% no substrato diminuiu a percentagem de colonização micorrízica da aveia. A similaridade verificada entre as curvas de regressões de percentagem de colonização e Água Facilmente Disponível, com mesmo ponto de máximo, sugerem que a quantidade de mesoporos resultante da combinação turfa/areia influencia na resposta dos FMA, a melhor resposta é obtida em mistura com 32,5% de turfa vermelha.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of different proportions of red peat and sand in the substrate on root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the consequent growth of white oats. The experiment was conducted in a greenhouse and the treatments consisted of combinations of read peat (T) and sand (A): 100%A; 25%T+75%A; 50%T+50%A; 75%T+25%A; 100%T. Ten oat seeds were sown per container (350ml volume) containing 5 grams of Glomus clarum inoculum. Forty-three days after sowing, vegetative development and mycorrhizae colonization of the plants' root system were evaluated by recording the presence of structures such as hyphae, arbuscules and vesicles. Substrates with higher amount of red peat led to increased shoot growth and quality of roots. However, the presence of peat above 50% in the substrate decreased the percentage of colonization of oats by AMF. The similarity of the regression curves of percentage of colonization and readily available water, with the same maximum point, suggest that the amount of mesopores influences the AMF response. It is concluded that the best quality of the substrate for the production of inoculum of Glomus clarum in mixtures of red peat and sand is obtained with about 32,5% red peat content in the mixture.
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Objetivou-se, neste trabalho, avaliar o efeito da interação entre três espécies de fungos micorrízicos arbusculares (FMAs) (Gigaspora margarita W.N. Becker & I.R. Hall., Glomus clarum Nicol & Schenck e Glomus etunicatum Becker & Gerd) e a aplicação radicular de ácido indolbutírico (AIB; 1,5 g.L-1) sobre o crescimento vegetativo e nutrição mineral de mudas do porta-enxerto de pessegueiro (Prunus persica) cv. Aldrighi. Foi utilizado o delineamento experimental de blocos ao acaso, com oito tratamentos, quatro repetições por tratamento e dez plantas por parcela. A aplicação do AIB não alterou o desenvolvimento vegetativo das plantas cultivadas em ausência de FMAs, apesar de aumentar a quantidade de potássio nos tecidos. Glomus clarum e Glomus etunicatum incrementaram o crescimento vegetativo e o conteúdo de nitrogênio, fósforo e potássio dos tecidos das plantas. Plantas inoculadas com FMAs, ao serem tratadas com AIB, apresentaram incremento no desenvolvimento vegetativo e nos conteúdos nutricionais, comparativamente àquelas não tratadas com a auxina.
The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the interaction between three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMFs) species (Gigaspora margarita W.N. Becker & I.R. Hall., Glomus clarum Nicol & Schenck and Glomus etunicatum Becker & Gerd) and the rooting application of indolebutyric acid (IBA; 1,5 g.L-1) on the vegetative growth and shoot mineral nutrition on peach tree rootstock (Prunus Persica) seedlings cv. Aldrighi. Random block delineation was used, with eight treatments, four repetitions per treatment and ten plants per plot. The application of IBA didn't alter the vegetative development of the plants cultivated in absence of AMFs, in spite of having increased the amount of potassium. Glomus clarum and Glomus etunicatum increased the vegetative growth and the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium shoot contents of the inoculated plants. Inoculated plants treated with IBA presented a increment in vegetative development and shoot nutritional contents compared to those cultivated in absence of IBA.
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Objetivou-se, neste trabalho, avaliar a influência de três espécies de fungos micorrízicos arbusculares (FMA) isolados de pomares de pessegueiro sobre o crescimento vegetativo, nutrição mineral e substâncias de reserva em plantas do porta-enxerto de pessegueiro cv. Aldrighi [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados, com dez plantas por parcela e quatro repetições. As plantas inoculadas com Glomus etunicatum apresentaram maior altura, diâmetro, área foliar, biomassa fresca e seca, nutrição mineral e substâncias de reserva da parte aérea, enquanto as inoculadas com Glomus clarum induziram um crescimento intermediário, superior àquelas inoculadas com Gigaspora margarita, que apresentaram resultados semelhantes às plantas não inoculadas. O desempenho foi relacionado com as taxas de colonização que nas plantas inoculadas com Glomus etunicatum e Glomus clarum foram de 92% e 77% respectivamente, enquanto Gigaspora margarita colonizou somente 30% das raízes.
This work aimed to evaluate the influence of three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) species on the vegetative growth, mineral nutrition and carbohidrate contents on peach rootstocks cv. Aldrighi [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]. The experimental desingwas the one of randomized blocks, with ten plants per plots and four repetitions. Plants inoculated with Glomus etunicatum presented larger stem height, stem diameter, foliar area, fresh and dry shoot biomass, leaf mineral nutrition and carbohidrate contents,while those inoculated with Glomus clarum induced an intermediate growth, higher to those inoculated with Gigaspora margarita that presented results similar to the non inoculated plants. Plant growth performance was related to colonization taxes, which were, respectively, 92%, 77% and 30% to Glomus etunicatum, Glomus clarum and Gigaspora margarita inoculated plants.
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The impact of naturally occurring arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soybean growth and their interaction with Heterodera glycines were evaluated in nematode-infested and uninfested fields in Kansas. Ten soybean cultivars from Maturity Groups III-V with differential susceptibility to H. glycines were treated with the fungicide benomyl to suppress colonization by naturally occurring mycorrhizal fungi and compared with untreated control plots. In H. glycines-infested soil, susceptible cultivars exhibited 39% lower yields, 28% lower colonization by mycorrhizal fungi, and an eightfold increase in colonization by the charcoal rot fungus, Macrophomina phaseolina, compared with resistant cultivars. In the absence of the nematode, susceptible cultivars exhibited 10% lower yields than resistant cultivars, root colonization of resistant vs. susceptible soybean by mycorrhizal fungi varied with sampling date, and there were no differences in colonization by M. phaseolina between resistant and susceptible cultivars. Benomyl application resulted in 19% greater root growth and 9% higher seed yields in H. glycines-infested soil, but did not affect soybean growth and yield in the absence of the nematode. Colonization of soybean roots by mycorrhizal fungi was negatively correlated with H. glycines population densities due to nematode antagonism to the mycorrhizal fungi rather than suppression of nematode populations. Soybean yields were a function of the pathogenic effects of H. glycines and M. phaseolina, and, to a lesser degree, the stimulatory effects of mycorrhizal fungi.
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Effects of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi and soil phosphorus (P) fertility on parasitism of soybean cultivars Bragg and Wright by soybean cyst nematode (SCN) were investigated in field micropiot and greenhouse experiments. VAM fungi increased height of both cultivars and yield of Wright in microplot studies in 1986 and 1987. Conversely, yield of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants of both cultivars was suppressed by SCN. Soil population densities of SCN were unaffected by VAM fungi in 1986 but were greater in microplots infested with VAM fungi than in control microplots in 1987. Growth of Wright soybean was stimulated by VAM fungi and suppressed by SCN in greenhouse experiments. The effect of VAM fungi on SCN varied with time. Numbers of SCN in roots and soil were decreased by VAM fungi by as much as 73% at the highest SCN inoculum level through 49 days after planting. Later, however, SCN numbers were usually comparable on mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants. Soil P fertility generally had no effect on SCN. Results of a split-root experiment indicated that VAM fungal suppression of SCN was not systemic.
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Microplot and field experiments were conducted to determine the effects of two vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi, Glomus intraradices (Gi) and Gigaspora margarita (Gm), and dicalcium phosphate (P) on Meloidogyne incognita (Mi) reproduction and seed cotton yield of the Mi-susceptible cotton cultivar, Stoneville 213. In 1983 population densities of Mi juveniles were significantly lower 60 and 90 days after planting in microplots receiving Gi. Mycorrhizal fungi reduced the severity of yield losses to Mi, whereas P fertilization increased yield losses to Mi. In 1984 microplot yields were reduced linearly as nematode inoculum densities increased in treatments of Mi alone, Gm, or P, but the response was curvilinear with Gi. Yield suppressions in the 1984 field experiment occurred only in plots infested with Mi alone. In the 1984 microplots, numbers of Mi juveniles penetrating seedling roots increased Iinearly with increasing nematode inoculum densities and was favored when mycorrhizal fungi or superphosphate were added. Juvenile penetration of roots was negatively correlated with yields in all treatments (r = -0.54 to -0.81) except Gm and with number of bolls in Mi alone (r = -0.85) and P (r = -0.81) treatments. Mycorrhizal fungi can increase host tolerance to M. incognita in field conditions and may function as important biological control agents in soils infested with high population densities of efficient VAM species.
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The influence of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (Gi) and superphosphate (P) on penetration, development, and reproduction of Meloidogyne incognita (Mi) was studied on the Mi-susceptible cotton cultivar Stoneville 213 in an environmental chamber at 28 C. Plants were inoculated with Mi eggs at planting or after 28 days and destructively sampled 7, 14, 21, and 28 days after nematode inoculation. Mi penetration after 7 days was similar in all treatments at either inoculation interval. At 28 days, however, nematode numbers were least in mycorrhizal root systems and greatest in root systems grown with supplemental P. The rate of development of second-stage juveniles to ovipositing females was unaffected by Gi or P when Mi was added at planting, but was delayed in mycorrhizal root systems when Mi was added 28 days after planting. Nematode reproduction was lower in mycorrhizal than in nonmycorrhizal root systems at both Mi inoculation intervals. Nematode reproduction was stimulated by P when Mi was added at planting, but was similar to reproduction in the low P nonmycorrhizal treatment when Mi was added 28 days after planting. Eggs per female were increased by P fertility when Mi was added at planting.
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The influences of a vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (Glomus etunicatus) and burrowing nematode (Radophohts similis), alone and in combination, on the growth of rough lemon (Citrus limon) seedlings were studied in the greenhouse. Growth of mycorrhizal seedlings was significantly greater than that of nonmycorrhizal seedlings or seedlings inoculated with R. sindlis. Mycorrhizal stimulation of seedling growth was inhibited by nematode infection. When seedlings were inoculated with G. etunicatus arid R. similis, suppression of seedling growth by R. similis was less on VAM seedlings than on nonmycorrhizal seedlings, Nonmycorrhizal seedlings infected with R. similis were significantly smaller than nonmycorrhizal seedlings free of R. similis. Vesicle formation and mycelia growth were less in nematode-infected roots.
