MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI IN SUSTAINABLE HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTION UNDER CHANGING CLIMATE SITUATIONS - Climate Dynamics in Horticultural Science - page 236

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have been shown to improve produc-
tivity in low fertility soils and are particularly important for increasing
the uptake of slow diffusing ions such as PO 4 3- , immobile nutrients such
as P, Zn and Cu. Under drought conditions, the uptake of highly mobile
nutrients such as NO 3 - can also be enhanced by mycorrhizal associations.
Improved P nutrition has been shown to increase in infertile and P fixing
soils of the tropics (Dodd, 2000). Some of the AMF in enhancing yield and
produce quality are presented in Table 14.2.

TABLE 14.2 AMF and Yield Increase in Horticultural Crops

Crop AMF +/- bioagent Yield/Quality Reference

Papaya 'Maradol' Glomus sp. Growth, production,

and fruit quality

Vazquez-Hernandez
et al. (2011)

Strawberry Glomus intraradices Quality Morales et al. (2010)

Grape Glomus sp. Quality Schreiner (2010)

Plantain ( Musa AAB
cv. Horn)

Glomus manihotis
Scutellospora het-
erogama

Nutrient uptake Gonzalez and

Cuenca (2006)

Sweet passion fruit
( Passiflora alata )

Gigaspora albida
and Scutellospora
heterograma

Production Silva et al. (2008)

Sweet orange cv.
Mosambi

Mixed AMF strains
of IARI), Azospiril-
lum , and micronutri-
ents sprays

Yield and higher
mixed strains of
IARI), Azospirillum ,
and micronutrients
sprays

Patel et al. (2009)

Kinnow mandarin Glomus deserticola Yield and quality Usha et al. (2012)

Banana and plantain
( Musa spp.)

Mixed AMF Growth, nutrient

uptake and control
of root damage by
nematodes

Jefwa et al. (2010)

Apple AMF + Azotobacter

chroococcum

Yield, P and Zn
uptake

Sharma et al. (2005)

Mango Azotobacter , Azo-

spirillum , mixed
strain of AMF and
phosphate solubiliz-
ing bacteria

Growth, fruit yield
and quality

Patel et al. (2005)