Growth of mycorrhized seedlings of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit. in a copper contaminated soil

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza, cowdung and phosphorus on red amaranth and Indian spinach in the net house of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with five replications and 8 treatment combinations comprised of T 1 : Control, T 2 : Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), T 3 : Cowdung (CD), T 4 : Phosphorus (P), T 5 : AM + CD, T 6 : CD + P, T 7 : AM + P and T 8 : AM + CD + P. Red amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor L.) cv. BARI Lalshak-1 and Indian spinach (Basella alba) cv. BARI Puishak-1 were used as test crops for the experiment. The experimental results showed that there were significant differences in growth and yield characters such as plant height, plant diameter, number of leaves per plant, shoot fresh and dry weights, root fresh and dry weights of red amaranth and Indian spinach due to the application of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), cowdung (CD) and phosphorus (P) independently and combinedly. When arbuscular mycorrhiza, CD and phosphorus were applied combinedly, it exhibited a remarkably higher response in growth and yield of these vegetables.

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“…Similar result was found by (Lins et al 2006) in Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) and (Samanhudi et al 2014) in ginger.…”

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Comparative effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza, cowdung and phosphorus on growth and yield contributing characters of red amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor L.) and Indian spinach (Basella alba L.)

Ghosh¹,

Tahjib-Ul-Arif²,

Chamely³

et al. 2017

Trop. Plant Res.

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“…In natural terrestrial ecosystems, AM colonization significantly stimulated the growth and biomass of seedlings subject to adverse conditions, such as drought stress (Wu and Xia, 2006), salt stress (Diouf et al, 2005), disease (Hao et al, 2005), and heavy metal stress * The author to whom correspondence should be sent. (Lins et al, 2006). AM colonized seedlings, in comparison to non-AM seedlings, have a higher leaf water potential, transpiration rates, photosynthetic rates, stomatal conductance, and relative water content (Wu and Xia, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Seed size influences arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis across leguminous host-plant species at the seedling stage

Jin

Wang

et al. 2009

Symbiosis

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Eighteen species of the Fabaceae were selected to investigate the relationship between plant seed size and the density of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) structures on the roots of young plants. The results demonstrated that seed size showed a strong negative correlation with the density of AM structures: smaller seeds exhibiting higher AM densities, which suggested that seed size may regulate AM symbiosis across leguminous host-plants species in natural habitats. Furthermore, the results also implied that different plant species used specific strategies, such as mycorrhizal symbiosis, to enhance seedling survival at the seedling stage.

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“…The species is also used for pulp and paper production (Lopez et al 2008;Diaz et al 2007), wood production (Tewari et al 2004;Prasad et al 2011), green manuring (Sharma et al 1998;Sharma and Behera 2010), phytoremediation and revegetation of fly ash basins and other contaminated areas (Cheung et al 2000;Lins et al 2006), for prevention of slope failure (Normaniza et al 2008), for energy and chemicals from autohydrolysis (Feria et al 2011). L. leucocephala can also be used for soil erosion, for reclamation of marginal and degraded waste land (due to high nitrogen-fixing potential), as ornamental and to control air pollution along roadside, as live fence along cultivated fields and for shade and support for shade loving plants and vines such as pepper, vanilla, and yam etc.…”

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Leucaena leucocephala: an underutilized plant for pulp and paper production

Pandey

Kumar

2013

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit. is native to Central America and Mexico, but now grows naturally in most tropical areas globally. It is a neglected and underutilized; medium to small sized tree of multiple values. It is commonly known as wild tamarind in English and subabul in Hindi. In recent years, Leucaena has gained a great attention for its utilization as raw material on large scale for pulp and paper industries and manufacturing of packaging material. Present paper deals with distribution, morphological description, current utilization, future prospective and propagation of this species. During the present study we have standardized macro-propagation technique for L. leucocephala. We used fly ash amended sand to develop rooting media for vegetative propagation of L. leucocephala and assess its potential as a rooting media. Root formation was significantly high (p \ 0.05) in 10 % FA amended sand in comparison to other used media. Rooted plants showed nutrient deficiency symptoms after 40-50 days in sand while in 10 % FA amended sand they were healthy, greener and do not showed nutrient deficiency symptoms. On the basis of present study, it is concluded that 10 % fly ash amended sand is a suitable rooting media for vegetative propagation of L. leucocephala.

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Growth of mycorrhized seedlings of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit. in a copper contaminated soil

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Comparative effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza, cowdung and phosphorus on growth and yield contributing characters of red amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor L.) and Indian spinach (Basella alba L.)

Comparative effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza, cowdung and phosphorus on growth and yield contributing characters of red amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor L.) and Indian spinach (Basella alba L.)

Seed size influences arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis across leguminous host-plant species at the seedling stage

Leucaena leucocephala: an underutilized plant for pulp and paper production

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