Abstract
Applicability of electrical impedance (EI) and electrical capacitance (EC) measure- ment for the investigation of root colonization of mixed arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and functional diversity of separated AMF strains were studied in two pot experiments. In the first experiment, mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal maize cultivars were compared for testing the sensitivity of EI and EC measurement in relation to mycorrhizal status of host plants. In the second one, root colonization, biomass production, EI and EC of Rhizophagus intraradices or Funneliformis mosseae, inoculated and non-inoculated cucumber and bean hosts were monitored. The mycorrhizal plants showed lower EI and higher EC than control plants for each species. Since fungal colonization did not produce an increase in root surface area of maize, the higher root-soil interface showed by EI and EC values was undeniably due to the increased absorption surface area caused by the growth of AMF hyphae. As for cucumber and bean, the two selected AMF strains differed significantly in infectivity and effectivity, and the measured values also vary with host plants. Measuring EI and EC proved to be well applicable for in situ investigation of functional aspects of mycorrhizae.
Abstract from the paper’s OpenAlex record, shown for indexing and research. Copyright remains with the authors or the publisher. Read at the source ↗
The text the model read, with the source record’s inline markup (italics, sub- and superscripts) rendered and its character entities decoded; quote offsets refer to the raw text.
Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal plants had lower electrical impedance than controls.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The mycorrhizal plants showed lower EI and higher EC than control plants for each species.”
Claim · model-written summary
Mycorrhizal plants had higher electrical capacitance than controls.
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“The mycorrhizal plants showed lower EI and higher EC than control plants for each species.”
Claim · model-written summary
Fungal colonization did not increase maize root surface area.
Zea maysNot reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fungal colonization did not produce an increase in root surface area of maize”
Claim · model-written summary
The AMF strains differed significantly in infectivity on cucumber and bean.
Verbatim
e0“As for cucumber and bean, the two selected AMF strains differed significantly in infectivity and effectivity”
Claim · model-written summary
The AMF strains differed significantly in effectivity on cucumber and bean.
Verbatim
e0“As for cucumber and bean, the two selected AMF strains differed significantly in infectivity and effectivity”
Claim · model-written summary
Measured values varied by host plant.
Verbatim
e0“the measured values also vary with host plants”
e1“As for cucumber and bean, the two selected AMF strains differed significantly in infectivity and effectivity, and the measured values also vary with host plants.”
Claim · model-written summary
EI and EC were applicable for in situ study of mycorrhizal function.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Measuring EI and EC proved to be well applicable for in situ investigation of functional aspects of mycorrhizae.”
e1“In the second one, root colonization, biomass production, EI and EC of Rhizophagus intraradices or Funneliformis mosseae, inoculated and non-inoculated cucumber and bean hosts were monitored.”
The same questions in other papers
infection · growth · Zea mays (maize)Positive and negative results
26 papers in the same direction as this paper · 17 in the opposite direction
- positive
- positive
- positive
40 papers more in this group
See all 44 papers →Claims are grouped by organism, treatment and what was measured or targeted. A paper counts as positive when any of its claims in the group is positive.