Locally adapted arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve vigor and resistance to herbivory of native prairie plant species

By Elizabeth L. Middleton, Sarah Richardson, L. Koziol, Corey E. Palmer, Zhanna Yermakov, Jeremiah A. Henning, P. Schultz, James D. Bever. 2015

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Soil microbial communities contribute to ecosystem function and structure plant communities, but are altered by anthropogenic disturbance. Successful restoration may require microbial community restoration. Inoculation of plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may improve ecological restoration, but AMF species that are locally adapted to native plant communities are often unavailable and commercially propagated AMF are not necessarily locally adapted to the desired plant community target. The disconnect between readily available commercial fungi and later-successional plants may inhibit successful establishment of the restoration. We tested this concept using four mid- to late successional prairie plant species planted with one of three inoculum sources: a locally adapted AMF mix cultured from native prairie, a non-locally adapted commercial AMF product, or a sterilized background soil control. The inoculated plants (termed nurse plants) were planted in the middle of field plots. In each plot, un...

Subfields: Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Insect Science

1. L. Koziol
2. James D. Bever

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. L. Koziol
2. James D. Bever
3. W. H. van der Putten
4. A. Kulmatiski

In Plant Science

1. L. Koziol
2. James D. Bever
3. W. H. van der Putten
4. A. Kulmatiski
5. M. Öpik

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• Mycorrhizal feedbacks generate positive frequency dependence accelerating grassland succession (2018, background): “Here, we show that inoculation with late successional soil symbionts can facilitate grassland succession by promoting late successional plant species survival and growth, as others have shown (Middleton & Bever, 2012; Middleton et al., 2015).”