Mycorrhiza

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Mycorrhizal diversity of Zambian ecosystems and the effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on tomato/R.G. Kapooria. 2. Occurrence of Vesicular - arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in polluted soils/P. Pavan Kumar, K.M. Shailaja and S. Ram Reddy. 3. Occurrence and distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the rhizospheric soils of coastal vegetation of Goa/B.F. Rodrigues and V. Jaiswal. 4. Mycorrhizal dependency of two multipurpose tree species in coal mine soils/P. Srinivas, G.L. Reddy, M.S. Rao and S.M. Reddy. 5. Arbuscular mycorrhizal responsiveness of two rice varieties in nutrient deficient laterite soil/R. Saha, J. Saha, P.M. Bhattacharya, D. Maiti and S. Chaudhuri. 6. Selection of efficient vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for neem/D.A. Sumana and D.J. Bagyaraj. 7. Influence of pseudomonas and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal interaction on the growth of maize (Zea mays L.)/Shalpa Bhatt, B.N. Johri and A.K. Sharma. 8. Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the establishment and growth of tissue culture plantlets of Banana and Alocasia/P. Sivaprakash, S. Suneetha, P.J. Joseph, K.K. Sulochana and K. Rajmohan. 9. Impact of glomus fasciculatum and murate of potash on biomass yield and sucrose content of saccharum officinarum L/Kamal Prasad and R.S. Bilgrami. 10. Mycorrhizal technology to enhance growth and essential oil yield in Coriandrum sativum L./Rupam Kapoor and K.G. Mukerji. 11. A comparative study of different isolates of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza on growth, nutrient uptake and biochemical constituents of pueraria phaseloides Benth/Kochuthresiamma Joseph, R. Kothandaraman and Jacob Mathew. 12. Effect of inoculation of efficient vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and P-solubilizer on growth and nutrition of teak (Tectona grandis L.)/S.B. Gurumurthy, M.N. Sreenivasa, J.H. Kulkarni and B.S. Nadagoudar. 13. Growth improvement of Acacias by indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Rhizobium and phosphate solubilizing bacteria in non-sterile field soil/K. Udaiyan and T. Muthukumar. 14. Response of Mungbean to Rhizobium and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza inoculation at varying levels of phosphorus/Narendra Kumar and R. Chandra. 15. Exploring possibilities of enhancing native vam association for improvement of upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) under rainfed agroecosystem/D. Maiti, M. Variar and J. Saha. 16. Arbuscular mycorrhizal association in medicinal plants of Western Ghats in Southern India/T. Muthukumar and K. Udaiyan. 17. Mycorrhizal status of nineteen species of bamboos in Kerala, India/C. Mohanan and Manoj Sebastian. 18. Mycorrhizal dependency, phosphorus utilization efficiency and relevance of mycorrhiza for Bamboo cultivation in laterite wasteland/P.M. Bhattacharya, D. Misra, J. Saha and S. Chaudhuri. 19. Interaction between organic manures and arbuscular mycorrhiza in cajanus root association in alluvial soil/Birendranath Panja and Subhendu Chaudhuri. 20. Effect of Vam inoculation on the growth of prosopis species in soils of arid zone/V. Mohan. 21. Influence of glomus mosseae on growth, uptake of mineral nutrients and essential oil contents of menthol mint (Mentha arvensis L.)/Abdul-Khaliq, M.L. Gupta, Sunil Kumar and K.K. Janardhanan. 22. Biocontrol of root-knot disease by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus Mosseae/Javid Iqbal and Irshad Mahmood. 23. Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on foot rot of black pepper and rhizome rot of ginger under field conditions/P. Sivaprasad, P.J. Joseph and K.K. Sulochana. 24. Management of pests and diseases of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) seedlings using vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza/S. Manian, Thompson T. Edathil and A. Arunkumar. 25. Arbuscular mycorrhiza, pseudomonas and Rhizobium tripartite interaction on the growth of Dalbergia sissoo/Rekha Bisht, B.N. Johri and P.C. Srivastava. 26. Influence of indigenous vam fungus (Glomus fasciculatum) and Rhizobium on growth, nutrient uptake and nodulation in acacia nilotica/Kamal Prasad. 27. Identification of efficient strains of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza for black pepper (Piper nigrum L.)/M. Anandaraj, K. Kandiannan, K. Sivaraman and Y.R. Sarma. 28. Effect of heavy metals on mycorrhizal formation and growth of Pinus kesiya seedlings/T. Ajungla, G.D. Sharma, M.S. Dkhar and H. Kayang. 29. Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on root-knot nematode infestation and growth of Kaempferia galanga Linn/M.R. Malathy, K. Ravikumar and P. Sivaprasad. 30. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza in some weeds belonging to compositae and gramineae/Rajni Gupta and K.G. Mukerji. 31. Effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rock phosphate in phosphatase activity in Terminalia Arjuna/B. Bhadraiah, V.V. Kankadurga, P. Ramarao and C. Manoharachary. 32. Vesicular-Arbuscular mycorrhizal association in different varieties of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.)/M.N. Reddy, M. Charitha Devi and N.V. Sridevi. 33. Seasonal fluctuations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on some commonly cultivated crops of Dharwad/H.C. Lakshman, R.F. Inchal and F.I. Mulla. 34. Study of mycelial inoculum production of Laccaria laccata and L. fraterna in submerged condition/Sandeep Garg and T. Satyanarayana. 35. Influence of vesicular - arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the growth of coffee plants/J.B. Palipane. 36. Taxonomy and host range of Tricholoma caligatum, Tricholoma matsutake and related species in Europe and Asia/Marcello G. Intini. 37. Application of ectomycorrhiza for improving the yield of Banana (musa parasisiaca L.)/N.V. Phirke, S.B. Chincholkar, D. Goyal and R.M. Kothari. 38. Impact of soil degradation on distribution of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in forest soils/S.S. Singh and S.C. Tiwari. 39. Evaluation of different biofertilizers on biomass production of two tree seedlings grown in ordinary and sludge amended soil with sewage water/S. Mohammed Ismail, T. Venkatesan, M. Subash Chandra Bose and S. Balasubramanian. 40. Mycorrhization of eucalyptus tereticornis seedlings by pisolithus tinctorius under alkaline conditions/M. Sudhakara Reddy, Dinesh Goyal and V. Ramamurthy. 41. Effect of vesicular-arbuscular mycorryhiza and rhizobium on field grown groundnut in acid lateritic soil/D. Sengupta, N.K. Verma and B.C. Ghosh. 42. Influence of glomus macrocarpum on dendrocalamus strictus/S.P. Gautam and Kamal Prasad. 43. Relative mycorrhizal dependency of French bean to different glomus species/G. Devi and A.K. Phookan. 44. Mycorrhizal technology for enhancing production of tropical tuber crops/V.P. Potty. 45. Response of onion (Allium cepa L.) to inoculation of vam fungi at different levels of phosphorus/B.V. Ramana and R. Sri Hari Babu. 46. Effect of ozone on root colonization by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and root nodulation by rhizobium in black gram/Madhu Kulshreshtha and M. Wajid Khan. 47. Occurrence of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in panandhro lignite mines/Tanushree Chatterjee. 48. Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus from mine spoils on growth of tree species and grass/A.V. Rao, J.C. Tarafdar and Richa Tak. 49. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from earthworm casts of grapevine orchards/B.P. Shinde and L.N. Nair. 50. Application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for biomass production in neem/Arun Arya. 51. Mycorrhizal association of the ground orchid cymbidium aloifolium (L.)/S. Senthil Kumar and S. John Britto. 52. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the revegetated coal mine spoil of Northern India/V.S. Mehrotra and Anil Prakash. 53. Performance of arbuscular mycorrhizal biofertilizer and their role in sustainable development and productivity/Kamal Prasad, Shiwani Kaushik and R.C. Rajak References.

"The compendium is a compilation of research papers, covering various aspects of mycorrhiza, presented at the National Conference on Mycorrhiza held at Barkatullah University, Bhopal. There, the contributors come from different field of research have discussed -- in recent future it will be possible the application of mycorrhizal inoculum in large-scale by developing cost-effective technology. Also demonstrations of the use of mycorrhizal-technology have to be carried out in farmer's field and forest nurseries to show the benefits of mycorrhiza in enhancing plant growth and reducing chemical fertilizer use in cultivation practices.

The departments, companies and NGOs involved in afforestation and agricultural activities are advised to include eco-friendly mycorrhizal-technology in their programmes, thus, helping in reducing the use of chemicals.

The book will serve as a useful guide for conducting further research studies on the interactions between plant and mycorrhiza."