Abstract
More vesicular–arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungal species and significantly more fungal spores were recovered from undisturbed prairie soils than four winter wheat field soils in Kansas through the 1980–1981 growing season. Two previously undescribed sporocarpic species of Endogonaceae were found in prairie samples but have not been successfully established in pot culture, leaving the genus to which they belong unclear. Though variable, 11–50% VAM root colonization was evident in all prairie grass roots sampled throughout the year. In contrast, no identifiable VAM root colonization was evident in wheat until May after flowering when 27% root colonization was observed. During the 1981–1982 growing season, roots of two other wheat fields were sampled with similar results. No colonization occurred until May when 8% root colonization was evident. The possible influence of such low levels of root colonization occurring quite late in the growing season of winter wheat is discussed.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Prairie soils had more VAM fungal species and significantly more spores than wheat field soils.
- Taxon
- winter wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Interactor
- vesicular–arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungale0symbiont
- Outcome
- fungal species and significantly more fungal sporese0
- Direction
- Moree0
- Comparator
- four winter wheat field soilse0
- Setting
- Kansase0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“More vesicular–arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungal species and significantly more fungal spores were recovered from undisturbed prairie soils than four winter wheat field soils in Kansas through the 1980–1981 growing season”
Claim · model-written summary
Two undescribed sporocarpic Endogonaceae species occurred in prairie samples and could not be established in pot culture.
- Taxon
- native tall grass prairiet0
- Interactor
- EndogonaceaeEndogonaceaee0symbiont
- Outcome
- previously undescribed sporocarpic species of Endogonaceaee0
- Value
- Twoe0
Verbatim
e0“Two previously undescribed sporocarpic species of Endogonaceae were found in prairie samples but have not been successfully established in pot culture”
t0“native tall grass prairie”
Claim · model-written summary
Prairie grass roots showed 11–50% VAM colonization throughout the year.
Verbatim
e0“11–50% VAM root colonization was evident in all prairie grass roots sampled throughout the year”
Claim · model-written summary
Wheat showed no identifiable VAM colonization until May after flowering, when colonization was 27%.
- Taxon
- wheatTriticum aestivume0
- Organ / stage
- roote0
- Interactor
- VAMe0symbiont
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Value
- 27%e0
- Qualifier
- May after floweringe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“no identifiable VAM root colonization was evident in wheat until May after flowering when 27% root colonization was observed”
Claim · model-written summary
Two other wheat fields showed no colonization until May, when it reached 8%.
- Taxon
- winter wheatTriticum aestivumt0
- Organ / stage
- rootse0
- Outcome
- root colonizatione0
- Value
- 8%e0
- Qualifier
- Maye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“roots of two other wheat fields were sampled with similar results. No colonization occurred until May when 8% root colonization was evident”
t0“winter wheat”