Abstract

DIVERSITY OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH SOME PLANTS FROM JABALPUR REGION OF MADHYAPRADESH INDIA

Jitendra Nagpure*, Akhlesh Kumar Pandey and Sajad Ahmad Mir

Abstract

An investigation was carried out to study AM fungi association with five different plant species viz, Euphorbia hirta, Lantana camara, Achyranthes aspera, Datura metel and Xanthium strumarium collected fom different sites of Jabalpur. Fungal species extracted from the roots of these plants assessed for identification of these spores, extracted from the sediments of the root region of these plants. All the five species of AM fungi viz, Glomus mosseae, Acaulospora laevis, Acaulospora scrobiculata, Sclerocystis spp., Glomus fasciculatum and some unknown species were found frequently attached to these plants. Two of the five AM fungi Glomus mosseae and Acaulospora laevis, were identified from Xanthium strumarium, three AM fungi viz., Glomus mosseae, Acaulospora laevis, and Sclerocystis spp., were associated with Lantana camara and Achyranthes aspera. AM fungi in % colonization in roots were studied in which highest % colonization were associated with Lantana camara species that accounts to 83% and lowest % colonization in Achyranthes aspera 34%. Glomus species was dominant in all the species of plants studied.

Keywords: AM fungi, Plant species, Root colonization and Jabalpur region.