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The selection of culture medium is of prime importance, because both roots and AM fungal propagules require different media compositions for their growth. The negative geotropic nature of transformed roots facilitates its contact with the AM fungal hyphae, thereby initiating colonization. Recently, AbdEllatif et al. (2012) demonstrated the successful establishment of AM fungal association in rootorgan culture using tomato hairy roots. 2 On-Farm Methods On-farm production of AM fungal inoculum entails increasing the propagules of desired isolates and indigenous AM fungi in fumigated and unfumigated field soils, respectively, or transplanting pre-colonized host plants into compostbased substrate (Douds et al.
Certain AM fungal species may survive in tilled soils, while others may disappear. Because AM fungi are more abundant in the topsoil, deep ploughing may dilute their propagules in a greater volume of soil, thereby reducing their chance of association with a plant root. Soil aggregation is an important process that maintains soil porosity, hydraulic activity, organic matter and also soil erosion (CaesarTonThat et al. 2011). But these processes are disturbed by long-term tillage systems, which subsequently not only affects the carbon stabilization and sequestration but also the microbial populations (Sainju et al.
1992): MGR = ⎡⎣( M − NM ) / NM ⎤⎦ × 100 Mycorrhizal dependency (MD) is defined as the growth response of the total dry matter in mycorrhizal (M) versus non-mycorrhizal (NM) plants at a given phosphorus level (Plenchette et al. 1983): MD = ⎡⎣( M − NM ) / M ⎤⎦ × 100 All mycorrhizal agricultural crops are not equally benefitted from the association. Generally, coarserooted plants like legumes benefit more from AM symbiosis than fine-rooted cereals (Jeffries and Dodd 1991). Mycorrhizal dependency of a crop species may differ with the cultivars as well as with the AM fungal species involved (Table 2; Figs.