TY - JOUR

T1 - Mutually beneficial legume symbioses with soil microbes and their potential for plant production

AU - Shtark, O.Y.

AU - Zhukov, V.A.

AU - Borisov, A.Y.

AU - Tikhonovich, I.A.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Legumes develop different mutually beneficial symbioses with soil microbes, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, nodule bacteria and plant growth promoting bacteria. Symbioses supply the plants with nutrients (predominantly with nitrogen and phosphorus), protect them from pathogens and abiotic stresses and improve soil microbial biodiversity and fertility. The synergistic activity of beneficial soil microbes (BSM) on the plants has great importance for the use of multi-component symbiotic systems in low-input sustainable environmentally-friendly agrotechnologies. However, the complex nature of the AM symbiosis when in a multi-component symbiosis (plant-fungus-bacteria) creates complications for the fungus to produce AM fungal propagules and poses questions (a) about the effectiveness of the fungus per se in interactions with the plants, without associates, and (b) about the necessity of using sterile/axenic conditions for the production of the AM fungi based inoculants because of any mixing and competi

AB - Legumes develop different mutually beneficial symbioses with soil microbes, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, nodule bacteria and plant growth promoting bacteria. Symbioses supply the plants with nutrients (predominantly with nitrogen and phosphorus), protect them from pathogens and abiotic stresses and improve soil microbial biodiversity and fertility. The synergistic activity of beneficial soil microbes (BSM) on the plants has great importance for the use of multi-component symbiotic systems in low-input sustainable environmentally-friendly agrotechnologies. However, the complex nature of the AM symbiosis when in a multi-component symbiosis (plant-fungus-bacteria) creates complications for the fungus to produce AM fungal propagules and poses questions (a) about the effectiveness of the fungus per se in interactions with the plants, without associates, and (b) about the necessity of using sterile/axenic conditions for the production of the AM fungi based inoculants because of any mixing and competi

KW - legumes

KW - arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM)

KW - rhizobia

KW - Legume-Rhizobia Symbiosis (LRS)

KW - multi-microbial inocula

KW - symbiotic effectiveness

U2 - DOI 10.1007/s13199-013-0226-2

DO - DOI 10.1007/s13199-013-0226-2

M3 - Article

VL - 58

SP - 51

EP - 62

JO - Symbiosis

JF - Symbiosis

SN - 0334-5114

IS - 1-3

ER -