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- Title
Abundance of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa associated with the roots and rhizosphere soil of different durum wheat cultivars in the Canadian prairies.
- Authors
Ellouze, Walid; Hamel, Chantal; Singh, Asheesh K.; Mishra, Vachaspati; DePauw, Ron M.; Knox, Ron E.
- Abstract
Understanding the variation in how wheat genotypes shape their arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities in a prairie environment is foundational to breeding for enhanced AM fungi–wheat interactions. The AM fungal communities associated with 32 durum wheat genotypes were described by pyrosequencing of amplicons. The experiment was set up at two locations in the Canadian prairies. The intensively managed site was highly dominated by <italic>Funneliformis</italic>. Genotype influenced the AM fungal community in the rhizosphere soil, but there was no evidence of a differential genotype effect on the AM fungal community of durum wheat roots. The influence of durum wheat genotype on the AM fungal community of the soil was less important at the intensively managed site. Certain durum wheat genotypes, such as Strongfield, Plenty, and CDC Verona, were associated with high abundance of <italic>Paraglomus</italic>, and <italic>Dominikia</italic> was undetected in the rhizosphere of the recent cultivars Enterprise, Eurostar, Commander, and Brigade. Genetic variation in the association of durum wheat with AM fungi suggests the possibility of increasing the sustainability of cropping systems through the use of durum wheat genotypes that select highly effective AM fungal taxa residing in the agricultural soils of the Canadian prairies.
- Subjects
MYCORRHIZAL fungi; RHIZOSPHERE microbiology; SOIL microbiology; VESICULAR-arbuscular mycorrhizas; BACTERIAL ecology; BACTERIAL communities
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2018, Vol 64, Issue 8, p527
- ISSN
0008-4166
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/cjm-2017-0637