TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolation and identification of desert habituated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi newly reported from the Arabian Peninsula
AU - Symanczik, Sarah
AU - Błaszkowski, Janusz
AU - Koegel, Sally
AU - Boller, Thomas
AU - Wiemken, Andres
AU - Al-Yahya'Ei, Mohamed N.
N1 - Funding Information:
The study was financed by the Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the University of Basel, the Polish National Centre of Science (N N304 061739 and DEC–2012/05/B/NZ8/ 00498) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (130794 to A.W.). We thank Paola BONFANTE and her team (University of Torino, Italy) for their supportive role during the initiation of the AM fungal diversity studies in southern Arabia; Ahmad AL-BAKRI, the Director General of Agricultural and Livestock Research of Oman’s Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries for providing formal and logistical support; Hamood AL-HASHMI for his assistance during the sampling trips; Annette PATZELT, Oman Botanic Garden for the plant identification.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are known to facilitate the growth and vigour of many plants, particularly in arid ecosystems. In a survey of AMF in a date palm plantation and two natural sites of a desert in Oman, we generated many single spore-derived cultures of AMF. We identified a number of these isolates based on spore morphotyping and molecular phylogenetic analysis using the sequence of the LSU-rDNA. Here, we presented the characteristics of four species of AMF recovered, namely Claroideoglomus drummondii, Diversispora aurantia, Diversispora spurca and Funneliformis africanum. The four species have been described previously, but for the Arabian Peninsula they are reported here for the first time. Our endeavor of isolation and characterization of some AMF habituated to arid sites of Arabia represents a first step towards application for environmental conservation and sustainable agriculture in this region.
AB - Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are known to facilitate the growth and vigour of many plants, particularly in arid ecosystems. In a survey of AMF in a date palm plantation and two natural sites of a desert in Oman, we generated many single spore-derived cultures of AMF. We identified a number of these isolates based on spore morphotyping and molecular phylogenetic analysis using the sequence of the LSU-rDNA. Here, we presented the characteristics of four species of AMF recovered, namely Claroideoglomus drummondii, Diversispora aurantia, Diversispora spurca and Funneliformis africanum. The four species have been described previously, but for the Arabian Peninsula they are reported here for the first time. Our endeavor of isolation and characterization of some AMF habituated to arid sites of Arabia represents a first step towards application for environmental conservation and sustainable agriculture in this region.
KW - Arabian Peninsula
KW - Oman
KW - arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
KW - biotechnology
KW - characterization
KW - desert ecosystem
KW - isolation
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U2 - 10.1007/s40333-014-0021-9
DO - 10.1007/s40333-014-0021-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84899140499
SN - 1674-6767
VL - 6
SP - 488
EP - 497
JO - Journal of Arid Land
JF - Journal of Arid Land
IS - 4
ER -