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Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi in relation to soil properties and disturbance


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Norhafizah M.Z. and Mazira C.M. and Chuah T.S. and Noorhazira Sidek and Khairul Azmi Mu'azzam A.R. (2016) Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi in relation to soil properties and disturbance. International Journal of Biology. Pharmacy and Allied Sciences (IJBPAS), 5 (8). pp. 1841-1854. ISSN 2277–4998

Abstract

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play an important role in terrestrial symbiosis, but little
is known about how soil AM fungal community composition varies in relation to soil
properties and disturbance. Diversity of AM fungi was investigated in soil under trees in
disturbed rainforest of Jeli District, Kelantan, Malaysia. Sixty rhizosphere soil samples were
collected from this rainforest and 234 AM fungal spores (or sporocarp) samples were
obtained using the wet-sieve method. Twenty-six species of AM fungi were identified from
the collections. The species of AM fungi were of the genera Acaulospora (6 species),
Gigaspora (1 species), Glomus (14 species), Sclerocystis (1 species) and Scutellospora (4
species). Glomus was dominant at the study site. The AM fungal spore density ranged from
65 to 1582 per 100 g dry soil (average 839), and the species richness of AM fungi ranged
from 1-7 (average = 3.93). The diversity indexes in this study showed that low AM fungi
diversity was found in the study site and its tend to be relatively influenced by soil properties
and disturbance.

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Item Type: Indexed Article
Collection Type: Institution
Date: August 2016
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Biology. Pharmacy and Allied Sciences (IJBPAS)
ISSN: 2277–4998
Uncontrolled Keywords: Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi: soil properties: disturbance: rainforest
Faculty/Centre/Office: Faculty of Agro - Based Industry
URI: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7552
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