Mycorrhizal symbiosis is a key component of natural and agricultural ecosystems. It enhances the mineral nutrition and increase tolerance of host plants to environmental and biological stress particularly in extreme ...

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are important service providers to agriculture that are impacted by certain cultural practices. We assessed the status of AM fungal resources in the Prairie, from the Grey to the Brown ...

Forty workshops were given to teach farmers how to improve fertilizer use efficiency in bean through the use of biofertilizers. Experiments were set up in 50 fields on commercial farms. Two treatments were applied in all ...

Organic farmers across Saskatchewan face widespread phosphorus (P) shortages. Due to the lack of inputs in organic systems, organic farmers must rely on mechanisms like crop rotation and naturally-occurring arbuscular ...

Field crops influence soil microbiota, impacting the health status and productivity of cropping systems. We conducted a two year field experiment using thirteen genotypes of chickpea and applied deep amplicon pyrosequencing ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) facilitate plant growth by aiding nutrient movement to plants especially under low fertility conditions. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi generally takes N as NH4+ or NO3-. We hypothesized ...

The biodiversity of AMF at different soil depths was studied in pure stands of the grasses crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.), switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), green needlegrass (Nassella viridula ...

The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a taxonomic group of microscopic soil dwellers generally promoting the growth of most plant species, including wheat, by mobilizing soil minerals, in particular soil P. Despite ...