1. Nematofauna associated with exotic and native leguminous plant species in West Africa: effect of Glomus intraradices arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
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Cécile Villenave, Jean-Luc Chotte, Khadi Leye, Robin Duponnois, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557 (LEM), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon (ENVL)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon (ENVL)
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0106 biological sciences ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Fauna ,Soil biology ,Soil Science ,Acacia ,Introduced species ,STRUCTURE DE POPULATION ,01 natural sciences ,Microbiology ,ABONDANCE ,Tylenchorhynchus ,Botany ,SYMBIOSE ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,LEGUMINEUSE TROPICALE ,biology ,ENDOMYCORHIZE ,Sesbania ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,NEMATODE ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,Nematode ,Microfauna ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,INTERACTION ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Ten leguminous trees, four exotic species (Australian Acacia) and six indigenous species (three Sahelian Acacia spp. and three Sesbania spp.), were grown for 4 months in a natural Sahelian soil inoculated with or without the endomycorrhizal fungus, Glomus intraradices. In control trials, the determinant factor structuring the soil nematode fauna was the plant species, related plants having a similar influence on the nematode community in the soil. Soil nematode abundance increased from exotic acacias (3.3 g-1 dry soil) to native acacias (11.5 g-1 dry soil) and Sesbania species (17.6 g-1 dry soil). Plant feeding nematodes (mainly Scutellonema and Tylenchorhynchus) were significantly less abundant under exotic acacias (1.4 g-1 dry soil) than under native acacias (7.2 g-1 dry soil) or Sesbania species (7.3 g-1 dry soil). Bacterial feeding nematode density increased from exotic acacias (1.2 g-1 dry soil) to native acacias (3.0 g-1 dry soil) and Sesbania species (7.7 g-1 dry soil) as total densities. However, the differences in the structure of the nematode communities between plant groups were suppressed in the presence of the mycorrhizal fungus. In fact, no difference in nematode densities remained between plant groups when G. intraradices developed in several dominant taxa belonging to different trophic groups, particularly: Tylenchorhynchus, Apelenchina, Cephalobus and Dorylaimoidea. This study clearly indicated that inoculation with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus G. intraradices diminished the plant-specific effect on the structure of the soil nematode community.
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- 2003
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