Mycorrhizal Association and Its Importance in Water Mining
Mycorrhizal association plays a crucial role in facilitating nutrient and water absorption for plants through a symbiotic relationship with fungi. This relationship enhances the plant's ability to acquire minerals from the soil while providing essential compounds to the fungi. The mycorrhizal association is essential for the germination and establishment of certain plant species like Pinus. By increasing the surface area for absorption, mycorrhizal fungi contribute significantly to water mining and nutrient uptake from the soil.
- Mycorrhizal association
- Water mining
- Nutrient absorption
- Symbiotic relationship
- Plant-fungus interaction
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UNIT - 02 :- WATER ABSORPTION AND TRANSLOCATION LECTURE - 09 :-MYCORRHIZAL ASSOCIATION AND ITS RELEVANCE IN WATER MINING
INTRODUCTION The fungus root symbiotic relationship is called mycorrhizae. All mycorrhizas have intimate contact between hyphae and plant cells in an interface where nutrient exchange occurs Uptake of nutrient and Mineral nutrient acquisition from soil is considered to be the primary function of mycorrhizas, in addition to it s roles in ecology, and man economic uses.
TYPES OF MYCORRHIZA Two types of mycorrhiza occur in Nature; Endomycorrhiza vesicular-arbuscular (common in more than 80 % of terrestrial plant species). Ectomycorrhiza (specific to conifers and some broadleaved woody species)
MYCORRHIZAL RELEVANCE IN WATER MINING The large surface area of the fungal hyphae is helpful in increasing the absorption of water and minerals from the soil. In return, they get sugar and nitrogenous compounds from the host plants. The mycorrhizal association is obligate in some plants. For example, Pinus seeds do not germinate and establish in the absence of mycorrhizal.
