Claim · model-written summary
Functional mycorrhiza alleviates resistance to water movement through substrate outside the root zone.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- functional mycorrhizae7
- Outcome
- resistance to water movement through the substratee7
- Direction
- alleviatese7
- Setting
- substrate areas outside of the root zonee7
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“experiments with tomato inoculated with Rhizoglomus irregulare”
e7“We conclude that functional mycorrhiza alleviates the resistance to water movement through the substrate in substrate areas outside of the root zone”
Title
Michael Bitterlich; Philipp Franken; Jan Graefe Frontiers in Plant Science 2018. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00301
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect AMF reduced saturated water content and total porosity of the substrate.
- Intervention effect AMF maintained air-filled porosity in substrate that excluded root ingrowth.
- Intervention effect Water content between field capacity and wilting point was reduced only in mycorrhizal substrates containing at least one RMC mutant.
- Association Plant available water content correlated positively with soil protein content.
- Association Soil protein content was highest in pots with the strongest hyphal colonization, but not significantly affected.
- Intervention effect Substrate hydraulic conductivity increased by up to 50 % in colonized substrates between 6 and 10 kPa.
- Mechanism The improvement in hydraulic conductivity requires a functional symbiosis with at least one wild-type plant.