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Epichloë endophytes of a wild grass promote mycorrhizal colonization of neighbor grasses
- Source :
- Fungal Ecology. 45:100916
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- A field experiment was performed to study the effect of Epichloë endophytes of the wild forage grass Bromus auleticus on mycorrhizal colonization, seedling emergence and growth parameters in three heterospecific grasses of agronomic interest. Plots with B. auleticus associated with Epichloë (E+) and non-associated (E-) plants were established and 3 y later, seeds of Lolium multiflorum (E+ or E-), Schedonorus arundinaceus (E+ or E-) and Bromus catharticus (not establishing associations with Epichloë) were sown as B. auleticus neighbors. B. auleticus E+ plants induced a significant increase in mycorrhizal colonization of the neighbor grasses, even higher in the E- neighbor plants (L. multiflorum and S. arundinaceus), in comparison to B. auleticus E- neighbors. Seedling emergence, root length, leaves number or shoot dry weight were not affected. This is the first approach to studying these triple interactions (endophyte-grass-mycorrhiza) involving wild and forage grasses in the field. Our results show that the effect of Epichloë extends further than its own host and suggest an interaction among endophytes of heterospecific neighbors at the rhizosphere level.Keywords arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Bromus auleticus, Lolium multiflorum, multiple mutualistic symbiosis, root exudates, Schedonorus arundinaceus Fil: Vignale, Maria Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Micología y Botánica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Micología y Botánica; Argentina Fil: Iannone, Leopoldo Javier. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Micología y Botánica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Micología y Botánica; Argentina Fil: Novas, María Victoria. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Micología y Botánica. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Micología y Botánica; Argentina
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Field experiment
Forage
Plant Science
MULTIPLE MUTUALISTIC SYMBIOSIS
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
Ciencias Biológicas
SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS
BROMUS AULETICUS
Botany
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Epichloë
Rhizosphere
Ecology
Host (biology)
Ecological Modeling
Bromus
Lolium multiflorum
biology.organism_classification
Seedling
ROOT EXUDATES
Micología
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM
010606 plant biology & botany
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17545048
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fungal Ecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d5f3e3c4d3756ddca0f980ed22baa357
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100916