Response of the grapevine rootstock richter 110 to inoculation with native and selected arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and growth performance in a replant vineyard

Mycorrhiza. 2008 Apr;18(4):211-216. doi: 10.1007/s00572-008-0168-3.

Abstract

Two indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi from the Mediterranean wine growing area in the Northeast of Spain were isolated and classified as Glomus intraradices Schenck & Smith. Both native fungi were found to increase the growth of the vine rootstock 110 Richter under greenhouse conditions compared with G. intraradices (BEG 72) and a phosphorus (P) fertilization treatment. The effectivity of field inoculation of Cabernet Sauvignon plants grafted on Richter 110 with the former native fungi and with G. intraradices BEG 72 in a replant vineyard severely infested by the root-rot fungus Armillaria mellea (Vahl ex Fr.) Kummer was assessed. The native fungi were not effective at enhancing plant development, and only G. intraradices BEG 72, resulted in a positive response. Field inoculation with this selected fungus increased plant shoot dry weight at the end of the first growing season.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agaricales
  • DNA, Fungal / analysis
  • Fungi / classification
  • Fungi / genetics
  • Fungi / isolation & purification
  • Fungi / physiology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mycorrhizae* / physiology
  • Phosphorus / metabolism
  • Plant Diseases / microbiology
  • Plant Roots* / growth & development
  • Plant Roots* / microbiology
  • Plant Shoots / growth & development
  • Plant Shoots / microbiology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Soil / analysis
  • Soil Microbiology
  • Spain
  • Spores, Fungal / classification
  • Spores, Fungal / isolation & purification
  • Vitis* / growth & development
  • Vitis* / microbiology

Substances

  • DNA, Fungal
  • Soil
  • Phosphorus

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EU234488
  • GENBANK/EU234490
  • GENBANK/EU234491
  • GENBANK/EU234492