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PLANT AND SOIL
Volume 350, Issue 1-2, Pages 85-98Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0884-x
Keywords
Cropping system; Fertilisation rate; Green manure; Composting; Phosphorus (P) response function; Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM)
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Field studies have indicated that plant-available P supply is the main determinant of the performance of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) of crops. Direct evidence is, however, weak. Our aim was to test the hypothesis that plant-available P is the main factor determining the benefit from AM to plant P uptake and growth in contrasting cropping systems. We compared a conventional system with full and half fertilisation rates and a low-input system with and without composting of residues. After 15 years, plant P response functions, with and without AM, were determined in a bioassay. At equal plant availability of P, the benefits from AM were similar to those at the P status in the field: The benefits were greater in the low-input system than in the conventional system, irrespective of the fertilisation rate but clearest with composting. This shows that differences between the systems in the benefit from AM to a particular crop genotype are not mainly due to differences in plant-available P. The results suggest also that differences in P pools, in growth-limiting factors such as N supply and in phytotoxicity to AMF hyphae play roles in determining the benefit. It is not likely that differences in AMF communities are important.
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