The monoxenic culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi has markedly improved our
understanding of the symbiosis. In the past 15 years, increasing amounts of literature have …

It is not yet routine to cultivate all arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi in vitro on root organs.
This is because these fungi are unable to complete their life cycle in the absence of a …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are obligate biotrophs which, after root colonization, exert
widely accepted benefits to a wide range of host-plant species. The fungi colonize the root …

Many different cultivation techniques and inoculum products of the plant-beneficial
arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have been developed in the last decades. Soil-and …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are ecologically important for most vascular plants for
their growth and survival. AM fungi are obligate symbionts. In recent years, there have been …

Actively growing extraradical hyphae extending from mycorrhizal plants are an important
source of inoculum in soils which has seldom been considered in vitro to inoculate young …

The? rst 30 cm of the earth's surface represents a fragile and valuable ecos-tem, thanks to
which terrestrial plants, and indirectly animals and humans, can live. The microbial activity …

Research on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the 1970s and 1980s was dominated by
the search for 'superstrains' capable of increasing plant biomass under any environmental …

Publisher Summary Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations established between thousands
of species of soil-borne fungi and the roots of most terrestrial plant species. This chapter …

“For a critical study of the effects of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza on plant growth, typical
infections must be produced under controlled microbiological conditions”. With those initial …