Phosphorus stress strongly reduced plant physiological activity, but only temporarily, in a mesocosm experiment with <i>Zea mays</i> colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Verlinden, Melanie S.; AbdElgawad, Hamada; Ven, Arne; Verryckt, Lore T.; Wieneke, Sebastian; Janssens, Ivan A.; Vicca, Sara

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2353-2022

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2353-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2353-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 9

Research article

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05 May 2022

Research article |

| 05 May 2022

Phosphorus stress strongly reduced plant physiological activity, but only temporarily, in a mesocosm experiment with Zea mays colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Melanie S. Verlinden, Hamada AbdElgawad, Arne Ven, Lore T. Verryckt, Sebastian Wieneke, Ivan A. Janssens, and Sara Vicca

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Phosphorus stress strongly reduced plant physiological activity, but only temporarily, in a mesocosm experiment with Zea mays colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Melanie S. Verlinden, Hamada AbdElgawad, Arne Ven, Lore T. Verryckt, Sebastian Wieneke, Ivan A. Janssens, and Sara Vicca https://zenodo.org/record/6428027

Short summary

Zea mays grows in mesocosms with different soil nutrition levels. At low phosphorus (P) availability, leaf physiological activity initially decreased strongly. P stress decreased over the season. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) symbiosis increased over the season. AMF symbiosis is most likely responsible for gradual reduction in P stress.