Displacement of an herbaceous plant species community by mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal Gmelina arborea, an exotic tree, grown in a microcosm experiment |
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Authors: | Arsene Sanon Pascal Martin Jean Thioulouse Christian Plenchette Rodolphe Spichiger Michel Lepage Robin Duponnois |
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Institution: | (1) IRD, UMR 113 CIRAD/INRA/IRD/AGRO-M/UM2, Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (LSTM), TA10/J, Campus International de Baillarguet, 34398 Montpellier, France;(2) Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Geneve, 1 Ch de l’impératrice, P.O. Box 60, 1292 Geneva, Switzerland;(3) Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5558, Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, Cedex, France;(4) INRA, UMR BGA, 17 Rue Sully, 21000 Dijon, France;(5) IRD, Unité de Recherche IBIS (Interactions Biologiques dans les sols des systèmes anthropisés tropicaux), 01 BP182 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
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Abstract: | Gmelina arborea Roxb. (Gmelina, Yemane) is a fast growing tree, native from India and considered as a potentially invasive woody plant in
West Africa. Mycorrhizal inoculation of seedlings with Glomus intraradices was performed to study (1) the effect on the growth of G. arborea, (2) the impact on the catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities and (3) the influence on the structure of herbaceous
plant species communities in microcosms. Treatments consisted of control plants, pre-planting fertilizer application and arbuscular
mycorrhizal (AM) inoculation. After 4 months’ culture in autoclaved soil, G. arborea seedlings were either harvested for growth measurement or transferred into containers filled with the same soil but not sterilized.
Other containers were kept without G. arborea seedlings. After 12 months’ further culture, effects of fertilizer amendment and AM inoculation on the growth of G. arborea seedlings were recorded. AM colonization was significantly and positively correlated with plant diversity. The substrate-induced
respiration response to carboxylic acids was significantly higher in the absence of G. arborea and in the presence of G. intraradices as compared to the other treatments. The influence of AM symbiosis on plant coexistence and on allelopathic processes of
invasive plants are discussed. |
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Keywords: | AMF Plant diversity Catabolic diversity Glomus intraradices Gmelina arborea |
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