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DOI 10.1038/s41598-019-45702-1
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Title (Primary) Drought modulates interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and barley genotype diversity
Author Sendek, A.; Karakoç, C.; Wagg, C.; Domínguez-Begines, J.; Martucci do Couto, G.; van der Heijden, M.G.A.; Naz, A.A.; Lochner, A.; Chatzinotas, A.; Klotz, S.; Gómez-Aparicio, L.; Eisenhauer, N.
Source Titel Scientific Reports
Year 2019
Department BZF; UMB; NSF; iDiv
Volume 9
Page From art. 9650
Language englisch
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Abstract Droughts associated with climate change alter ecosystem functions, especially in systems characterized by low biodiversity, such as agricultural fields. Management strategies aimed at buffering climate change effects include the enhancement of intraspecific crop diversity as well as the diversity of beneficial interactions with soil biota, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). However, little is known about reciprocal relations of crop and AMF diversity under drought conditions. To explore the interactive effects of plant genotype richness and AMF richness on plant yield under ambient and drought conditions, we established fully crossed diversity gradients in experimental microcosms. We expected highest crop yield and drought tolerance at both high barley and AMF diversity. While barley richness and AMF richness altered the performance of both barley and AMF, they did not mitigate detrimental drought effects on the plant and AMF. Root biomass increased with mycorrhiza colonization rate at high AMF richness and low barley richness. AMF performance increased under higher richness of both barley and AMF. Our findings indicate that antagonistic interactions between barley and AMF may occur under drought conditions, particularly so at higher AMF richness. These results suggest that unexpected alterations of plant-soil biotic interactions could occur under climate change.
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Sendek, A., Karakoç, C., Wagg, C., Domínguez-Begines, J., Martucci do Couto, G., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Naz, A.A., Lochner, A., Chatzinotas, A., Klotz, S., Gómez-Aparicio, L., Eisenhauer, N. (2019):
Drought modulates interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and barley genotype diversity
Sci. Rep. 9 , art. 9650 10.1038/s41598-019-45702-1