Article
Increasing Endomycorrhizal Fungus Inoculum in Forest Nursery Soil With Cover Crops
Southern Journal of Applied Forestry
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-1-1980
Abstract
Corn, millet, sudex, and sorghum were all effective cover crops for increasing inoculum density of vesicular-arbuscular fungi (Glomus spp.) in nursery soils. Spore production was increased approximately 7 to 12 times, depending on the cover crop used. Sweetgum seedlings did not differ significantly in size on plots previously planted with any of the four cover crops. Eighty-nine percent of the sweetgum seedlings grown after cover cropping had root-collar diameters exceeding the minimum (0.25 inch) recommended for outplanting of this species.
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en
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Citation Information
Paul P. Kormanik, W. Craig Bryan and Richard C. Schultz. "Increasing Endomycorrhizal Fungus Inoculum in Forest Nursery Soil With Cover Crops" Southern Journal of Applied Forestry Vol. 4 Iss. 3 (1980) p. 151 - 153 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard_schultz/42/
This article is from Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 4 (1980), 151.