Mycorrhizal species selectivity of sweet sorghum genotypes and their effect on nutrients uptake
Mycorrhizal species selectivity of sweet sorghum genotypes and their effect on nutrients uptake
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2022-05-16
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Ortas, Ibrahim
Bilgili, Gizem
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Taylor & Francis Group - Informa UK Limited
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This study aimed to find the effects of several mycorrhiza species on agronomic characteristics and nutrient uptake of various sweet sorghum genotypes under the semi-arid Mediterranean soil conditions. Four sweet sorghum genotypes were inoculated with three mycorrhiza species under greenhouse conditions. The plants were evaluated for growth parameters such as shoot height, root length, root morphology (root surface, root diameter and volume), shoot and root
dry weight, uptake of macro and micro mineral nutrients, root colonisation and mycorrhizal dependency. Mycorrhizal species significantly improved growth and productivity of sorghum genotypes. Inoculation of Funneliformis mosseae, Claroideoglomus claroideum and Claroideoglomus etunicatum resulted in the highest shoot and total dry matter biomass production in Ashana, Hereahri and Yellow genotypes, respectively. Mycorrhiza inoculated white genotype had higher root colonisation and root development, and shoot P, K, Ca and Mg contents. Yellow genotypes produced significantly higher shoot and total dry weight and also were highly mycorrhiza dependent among the four genotypes. Compared to the control treatment mycorrhizal inoculation increased shoot Zn concentration but had non-consistent effects on shoot Cu, Fe and Mn contents. Conclusively, our findings confirmed that sweet sorghum genotypes responded selectively to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonisation for their growth parameters and nutrients uptake.
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Acknowledgements: The authors thank Dr İbrahim Malik for providing the genotypes. The authors thank Research assistant Mehmet Işık and Feyzullah Oztur for their help on root analyses. Also the authors thank Dr Muhammad Riaz for proof reading. The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science, 2022, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09064710.2022.2063167 . © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Keywords: Sweet sorghum genotypes; mycorrhiza species; mycorrhizal dependency; mineral nutrients; root morphology; Turkey; semi-arid; arid; agriculture; drought tolerant plants; marginal land; biofertiliser.
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Ibrahim Ortas & Gizem Bilgili (2022) Mycorrhizal species selectivity of sweet sorghum genotypes and their effect on nutrients uptake, Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B — Soil & Plant Science, 72:1, 733-743, DOI: 10.1080/09064710.2022.2063167