A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

New Phytologist - Tập 115 Số 3 - Trang 495-501 - 1990
Terence P. McGonigle1, M. H. Miller1, D. G. Evans2, G. Fairchild3, Jacky Swan4
1Department of Land Resource Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1 Canada
2Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331–4606, USA,
3International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, PMB 5320, Oyo Road, Ibadan, Nigeria
4Organization Studies and Applied Psychology Division, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK.

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SUMMARYPreviously described methods to quantify the proportion of root length colonized by vesicular‐arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal fungi are reviewed. It is argued that these methods give observer‐dependent measures of colonization which cannot be used to compare, quantitatively, roots examined by different researchers. A modified method is described here to estimate VA mycorrhizal colonization on an objective scale of measurement, involving inspection of intersections between the microscope eyepiece crosshair and roots at magnification × 200; it is referred to as the magnified intersections method. Whether the vertical eyepiece crosshair crosses one or more arbuscules is noted at each intersection. The estimate of colonization is the proportion of root length containing arbuscules, called the arbuscular colonization (AC). The magnified intersections method also determines the proportion of root length containing vesicles, the vesicular colonization (VC), and the proportion of root length containing hyphae, the hyphal colonization (HC). However, VC and HC should be interpreted with caution because vesicles and hyphae, unlike arbuscules, can be produced in roots by non‐mycorrhizal fungi.

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New Phytologist

Tập 115 Số 3

495-501

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