The agriculture, salinity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi꞉ a need, a problem and an alternative

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Laura R. Medina García

Abstract

Among the adverse conditions of farming
systems, salinity is the most influential factor on the
establishment of human populations. Salinity inhibits
plant growth and productivity, induces osmotic imbalances
relationships between soil and plants and in the metabolism
of these. Stress tolerance in plants is a complex phenomenon
involving many changes at the biochemical and physiological
level. The mechanisms behind stress tolerance seem to be
affected by the colonization of arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi, numerous studies demonstrating that inoculation
with these fungi improving plant growth under salt stress,
so the knowledge of the interactions between different AMF
species and soil conditions leading to the establishment of
better adapted populations and more effective to ensure the
benefits of symbiotic association under these conditions.

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Medina García, L. R. (2016). The agriculture, salinity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi꞉ a need, a problem and an alternative. Cultivos Tropicales, 37(3), 42–49. Retrieved from https://ediciones.inca.edu.cu/index.php/ediciones/article/view/1251
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