The Role of Mycorrhizal Relationship in Sustainable Manner Towards Plant Growth and Soil Fertility (original) (raw)

Mycorrhizae are symbiotic associations, formed between plants and soil fungi that play an essential role in plant growth, plant protection and soil fertility. The AM (Arbuscular Mycorrhizae) fungi expand their filaments in soil and plant roots. These filamentous networks promote bi-directional nutrient movement where soil nutrients and water move to the plant and plant photosynthesis flow to the fungal network. AM fungi are ubiquitous in the soil and can form symbiosis with most terrestrial plants including major crops, cereals, vegetables and horticultural plants. Soil microbial populations are immersed in a framework of interactions known to affect the soil quality. AM fungi induced changes in plant physiology; affect the microbial populations both qualitatively and quantitatively, in rhizosphere or mycorhizosphere. Therefore, the rhizosphere of a mycorrhizal plant has different features than those of a non-mycorrhizal plant. AMF involved in fundamental activities that enhanced th...

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