Abstract
Abstract This paper has large implications. It reports an experiment in which pine seedlings grown in prairie soil were found incapable of normal growth except when artificially provided with mycorrhizal fungi. It has been suspected for many years that mycorrhizal fungi are essential for the normal growth of forest trees. Unless mycorrhizal fungi are introduced in prairie soils through one means or another, the growth of trees planted in them may be unsatisfactory or completely lacking. The extensive program of afforestation in the prairie region as contemplated in connection with the shelterbelt project makes additional research on this problem imperative.
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Claim · model-written summary
Pine seedlings in prairie soil failed to grow normally unless supplied with mycorrhizal fungi.
- Organ / stage
- seedlingse0
- Treatment
- artificially provided with mycorrhizal fungie0
- Interactor
- mycorrhizal fungie0symbiont
- Outcome
- normal growthe0
- Comparator
- except when artificially provided with mycorrhizal fungie0
- Setting
- prairie soile0
PinusNot reportedDirection
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Verbatim
e0“pine seedlings grown in prairie soil were found incapable of normal growth except when artificially provided with mycorrhizal fungi”
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