三七丛枝菌根（AM）的研究

研究发现,丛枝菌根真菌(AMF)能侵染三七根系并形成典型的丛枝菌根(AM),侵染率在12%～30%,但侵染强度较弱。从三七根际采集的10个土样中共分离出15种AMF,Glomus属11种,Acaulospora属4种,分别是瘤状无梗囊霉、刺无梗囊霉、孔窝无梗囊霉、细齿无梗囊霉、地球囊霉、明球囊霉、缩球囊霉、单孢球囊霉、近明球囊霉、地表球囊霉、小果球囊霉、摩西球囊霉、何氏球囊霉、晕环球囊霉和网状球囊霉。其中,地球囊霉是三七的优势种。因此,AMF是三七丰产栽培中的一种潜在应用价值的生物资源。     

菌根真菌在陆地生态系统中的作用

对菌根真菌在陆地生态系统中与植物共生、固定土壤中的营养元素及水分、作为动物的食物以及影响植物群落的演替和区系组成以及调节生态系统中的资源配置、维持系统的物种多样性等方面的生态作用进行了讨论。     

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi as Components of Sustainable Soil-Plant Systems

Abstract

Increased pressure for food production has, in recent years, led to the development of intensive agricultural systems that use significant quantities of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. However, there is now substantial evidence for the environmental costs of this high-input strategy and this has led to demands for agricultural systems to be modified in order to make them more sustainable. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a key role in natural and agricultural ecosystems through major functions in the enhancement of plant phosphorus and nitrogen nutrition, nutrient and soil conservation, and the biological control of plant pathogens. They are essential to the sustainability of systems and their importance in agricultural ecosystems is likely to increase as inputs are reduced and/or rationalized. In order to maximize their benefits it is essential to ensure that management practices include minimum tillage, reduced use of inappropriate fertilizer, appropriate crop rotations with minimal fallow, and rationalized pesticide use. Furthermore, crop breeders should take full account of the symbiosis in selection. Future research should be targeted to understanding the functional ecology of AMF in agroecosystems.     

The importance of integration and scale in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus contributes to system processes and functions at various hierarchical organizational levels, through their establishment of linkages and feedbacks between whole-plants and nutrient cycles. Even though these fungal mediated feedbacks and linkages involve lower-organizational level processes (e.g. photo-assimilate partitioning, interfacial assimilate uptake and transport mechanisms, intraradical versus extraradical fungal growth), they influence higher-organizational scales that affect community and ecosystem behavior (e.g. whole-plant photosynthesis, biodiversity, nutrient and carbon cycling, soil structure). Hence, incorporating AM fungi into research directed at understanding many of the diverse environmental issues confronting society will require knowledge of how these fungi respond to or initiate changes in vegetation dynamics, soil fertility or both. Within the last few years, the rapid advancement in the development of analytical tools has increased the resolution by which we are able to quantify the mycorrhizal symbiosis. It is important that these tools are applied within a conceptual framework that is temporally and spatially relevant to fungus and host. Unfortunately, many of the studies being conducted on the mycorrhizal symbiosis at lower organizational scales are concerned with questions directed solely at understanding fungus or host without awareness of what the plant physiologist or ecologist needs for integrating the mycorrhizal association into larger organizational scales or process levels. We show by using the flow of C from plant-to-fungus-to-soil, that through thoughtful integration, we have the ability to bridge different organizational scales. Thus, an essential need of mycorrhizal research is not only to better integrate the various disciplines of mycorrhizal research, but also to identify those relevant links and scales needing further investigation for understanding the larger-organizational level responses. The U.S. Government's right to retain a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence in and to any copyright is acknowledged. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

盐胁迫下接种AM真菌对玉米耐盐性的影响

以玉米品种陕单16号幼苗为材料,用盆栽法研究了不同含盐量(0、0.5、1.0、1.5和2.0 NaCl g/kg)土壤接种AM真菌(Glomus mosseae)对玉米幼苗生物量、盐害级数,以及叶片中电解质透出率、丙二醛、O·2-、H2O2含量和保护酶活性的影响.结果表明:在盐胁迫下,接种AM真菌增加了玉米植株生物量,降低了玉米的盐害级数;菌根植株叶片中过氧化氢酶的活性高于非菌根植株,而过氧化物酶、抗坏血酸氧化酶和多酚氧化酶的活性则为非菌根植株高于菌根植株;超氧化物歧化酶的活性在NaCl浓度为0、0.5和1.0 g/kg时为非菌根植株高于菌根植株,而在NaCl浓度为1.5和2.0 g/kg时则为菌根植株高于非菌根植株;菌根植株叶片中电解质透出率、丙二醛、O·2-和H2O2的含量低于非菌根植株.可见,AM真菌的侵染提高了玉米的耐盐性,缓解了由盐胁迫引起的过氧化胁迫对玉米植株的伤害,但这一缓解作用并不只是通过提高保护酶活性来实现的,可能还存在一些非酶促的调节机制.     

丛枝菌根真菌提高植物耐盐性的作用机制

本文阐述了盐胁迫对丛枝菌根真菌(AMF)生理生态学效应的影响以及对植物的促生作用,并从营养吸收、渗透调节、抗氧化物酶、激素及基因表达等几方面综述了国内外关于AMF提高植物耐盐性生理及分子机制的研究进展,指出目前该领域研究中尚需解决的问题.     

Evidence that soil nutrient stoichiometry controls the competitive abilities of arbuscular mycorrhizal vs. root-borne non-mycorrhizal fungi

A majority of plant species has roots that are colonized by both arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and non-mycorrhizal (NM) fungi. The latter group may include plant mutualists, commensals, parasites and pathogens. The co-occurrence of these two broad groups may translate into competition for root volume as well as for plant-derived carbon (C). Here we provide evidence that the relative availability of soil nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) (i.e., soil nutrient stoichiometry) controls the competitive balance between these two fungal guilds. A decrease in the soil available N:P ratio resulted in a lower abundance of AM fungi and a corresponding increase in NM fungi. However, when the same fertilization treatments were applied in a soil in which AM fungi were absent, lowering the soil available N:P ratio did not affect NM fungal abundance. Taken collectively, our results suggest that the increase in NM fungal abundance was not a direct response to soil nutrient stoichiometry, but rather a competitive release from AM fungi responding negatively to higher soil P. We briefly discuss the mechanisms that may be responsible for this competitive release.     

丛枝菌根真菌与根围促生细菌相互作用的效应与机制

丛枝菌根(arbuscular mycorrhiza,AM)真菌是植物活体营养专性共生菌,广泛存在于陆地各生态系统中.研究表明,AM真菌与根围促生细菌(plant growth promoting rhizobacteria,PGPR)之间的相互作用,尤其是它们之间的协同作用不仅影响植物养分吸收利用、病原物发生发展、土壤理化特性与生物修复等,而且对于可持续农、林、牧业生产、稳定生态系统都具有十分重要的意义.因此,近年来给予众多关注和研究.综述了AM真菌与PGPR之间的相互影响及其可能的作用机制,以及AM真菌与PGPR协同改善植物营养和生长、协同抑制病原菌、协同修复土壤方面的作用,旨在总结AM真菌与PGPR相互作用的效应与机制方面的最新研究进展,为今后研究发展提供依据.     

Mycorrhization of the Commercially Important Micropropagated Plants

Abstract

In the last few years, urbanization and changes in eating habits have caused a significant shift toward the consumption of fresh fruits, leafy green salads, and vegetables. This has been followed by a growing commercialization of ornamental plants. These products come from a labor- and capital-intensive activity, where chemical inputs play an essential role but also brings with it a set of problems linked to the degradation of the natural environment and resource base. The present review presents new developments in the potential use of biological tools such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which should ensure adequate levels of food production with satisfactory reduction of chemical fertilizer and pesticides, in the context of technologies needed for sustainable agriculture. The potential of mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilizers and bioprotectors to enhance crop production is well recognized, but not well exploited because of the current agronomic practices, with their implications for the environment. To clarify a few salient points, we discuss a case experiment conducted on tissue culture-raised plantlets in association with mycorrhizal fungi grown in a controlled growth house (phytotron) and then transferred to the field for follow-up response under natural conditions.

For rooting, the genetic, developmental, positional, and physiological conditions of the microcutting are essential. Propagation in vitro offers an excellent possibility to study the factors that determine the rooting ability of a shoot. The major leap forward in the study of rooting was made 60 years ago with the discovery of the effect of auxin. (Thimann and Went, 1934). Since then, progress has been slow and no other major factor has been found to achieve rooting of recalcitrant crops. It has been postulated that redirection of research is required. We have established the positive influence of endomycorrhizal fungi (possibly Glomus mosseae Schenck and Perez) on the excessive root proliferation in the maize seedlings in in situ experiments. Evidence was documented for the secretion of growth-promoting metabolites like indole acetic acid (IAA) and kinetin on associative growth and development of maize roots and fungal symbionts. Such a study under controlled conditions with micropropagated plants will allow identification of the promoters involved and accurate determination of which step in the rooting process is blocked in recalcitrant crops. This review highlights such a novel approach for future biotechnology.     

A new model of carbon and phosphorus transfers in arbuscular mycorrhizas

Existing models of nutrient transfer in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses are inadequate as they do not explain the range of real responses seen experimentally. A computer simulation model was used to evaluate the novel hypotheses that mycorrhizal nutrient transfers were based solely on symbionts' internal needs, and that carbon and phosphorus transfers were quantitatively unlinked. To be plausible, simulated mycorrhizal plants would show a +/-50% variation in weight vs nonmycorrhizal controls, with a normal response distribution (mimicking a real data set). One plant and one arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF) growing in a soil volume were simulated, using C, P and nitrogen nutrient cycling and stoichiometry. C- and P-exchange rates were independent and could be varied at will. The model was tested at realistic nutrient concentrations and a full range of nutrient exchange rates. The model showed -20% to +55% range in mycorrhizal plant weight distributed close to normal, suggesting that the hypotheses were plausible. The model suggests that theoretical assumptions about mycorrhizas should be reassessed. The model worked only because the symbionts possessed incomplete information on their partner and environmental conditions. Conventional cost-benefit models do not work under these circumstances, but both mutualistic and parasitic interactions were successfully simulated.