COMPETITION BETWEEN PLANTS OF DIFFERENT SUCCESSIONAL STAGES - MYCORRHIZAE AS REGULATORS
COMPETITION BETWEEN PLANTS OF DIFFERENT SUCCESSIONAL STAGES - MYCORRHIZAE AS REGULATORS
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10.1139/b84-356
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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ALLEN, MF
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ALLEN, EB;ALLEN, MF
Salsola kali, a colonizing annual which does not form vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (nonmycotrophic), was grown in pure culture and in mixtures with two mycotrophic grasses which are late successional dominants, Agropyron smithii and Bouteloua gracilis. Soils were either left sterile or inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi. In pure culture mycorrhizae caused no significant increase in dry mass of either grass, but in mixed culture with S. kali, mycorrhizal infection was sigificantly related to increased mass of grasses. Mycorrhizal infection was related to increased stomatal conductance of the grasses in both pure and mixed culture. S. kali had lower stomatal conductance but not a significantly reduced mass with mycorrhizal fungi. Hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi, but not vesicles or arbuscules, were observed in the rhizosphere and occasionally the cortex of S. kali. Where competition between colonizing nonmycorrhizal species and later successional mycorrhizal species is a mechanism which drives succession, the inoculum density may determine the rate of succession.