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| Title: | Symbiotic Fungi for Eco-friendly Environment: A Perspective |
| Authors: | Kumari, Rina
Giang, Pham Huong
Sachdev, Minu
Garg, Amar P
Varma, Ajit |
| Keywords: | Symbiotic fungi
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Piriformospora indica
Plant growth
Green environment |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2004 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| IPC Code: | Int. cl.7 — A01H 17/00 |
| Abstract: | Increasing interest in commercial
cultivation of medicinal and economically important plants on large scale has
necessitated development of various tissue culture techniques for their early
growth and improvement in yield. But sometimes micropropagated plants do not
acclimatize due to lack of eco-friendly microorganisms in the rhizosphere zones.
The relevance of mycorrhiza for the acclimatization, success of micropropagated
plantlets has gained importance in the recent past, because most of the forest
trees are obligatory dependent upon the mycorrhizal symbiosis. The influence of
early mycorrhizal symbiosis under controlled conditions and their resistance to
environmental stresses had been reported earlier. Since Arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi do not grow like any other fungi apart from their living hosts, an
axenically cultivable mycorrhiza-like-fungus named, Piriformospora
indica was discovered. The utilization of this fungus in acclimatization
of selected economically and medicinally important plants has been discussed in
this paper for further exploration. |
| Page(s): | 396-400 |
| ISSN: | 0975-1092 (Online); 0972-592X (Print) |
| Source: | NPR Vol.3(6) [November-December 2004]
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