Record ID No. |
6120 |
Author(s) |
Kehri H. K. and Akhtar O. , 2018 |
Affiliation |
Sadasivan Myco-Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002, Uttar Pradesh, India. |
Title |
Approaches in studying the diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Biodiversity Monitoring Management and Uitlization, Chapter 8: 91-110. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Ecology Morphology |
Sub-subjects |
Biodiversity Molecular taxonomy |
Host |
NA |
Organism |
NA |
Country |
India |
Abstracts |
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are integral component of the soil ecosystem. They are found in symbiotic association with roots of higher plants. Being endophytic and obligate nature it is very difficult to culture in auxenic medium. This nature hampers the approaches in studying the diversity and ecology of AM fungi. In recent past the morphological methodologies has been developed so as to study these important communities within the root and in soils. The morphological approaches are solely based on the characterization of azygospores produced in the soils and in the roots. However, these methods have some problems and limitations in characterization of AM fungal spores. To overcome this, scientists have applied molecular approaches in understanding the taxonomy and ecology of AM fungi. It has now been established to use SSU-ITS-LSU region of the nuclear ribosomal gene (~1.5-1.8 kb) as potential barcode region for the identification of AM fungi at species level. This literature encompasses morphological and molecular approaches in the field of AM fungi and relevance of the two approaches has been discussed. |