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Influence of inoculation with Glomus mosseae or Acaulospora morrowiae on arsenic uptake and translocation by maize

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A split root device was designed to assess the possible role of AMF in translocation and detoxification of As by maize plants. Half of each maize root system grew in As-amended or unamended soil and the remainder was inoculated with either Glomus mosseae or Acaulospora morrowiae. External mycelium was collected from a third compartment. Neither shoot nor root As concentrations were affected by inoculation with either fungus. Soil As amendment produced higher As concentrations in roots in the second compartment and in the external mycelium. The As concentrations in the matrix solution of the second root compartment were lower in mycorrhizal treatments with no differences in soluble As in the hyphal compartments. Mycorrhiza exerted little effect on As translocation within plants but may have influenced root As efflux. Deposition of As in external mycelium indicates a possible role of mycorrhizal fungi in the detoxification of As in the host plants.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Projects 30571105 and 30370818), the British Council (Project DelPHE 1.64) and the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry. We also thank two anonymous reviewers whose helpful suggestions have greatly improved the manuscript.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100094, China

    Zhen-Hui Wang, Jun-Ling Zhang, Peter Christie & Xiao-Lin Li

  2. Key Laboratory of Plant–Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100094, China

    Zhen-Hui Wang, Jun-Ling Zhang, Peter Christie & Xiao-Lin Li

  3. College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100094, China

    Zhen-Hui Wang, Jun-Ling Zhang, Peter Christie & Xiao-Lin Li

  4. Rubber Research Institute/Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory for Tropical Crops, CATAS, Danzhou, 571737, Hainan, China

    Zhen-Hui Wang

  5. Agricultural and Environmental Science Department, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 5PX, UK

    Peter Christie

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Wang, ZH., Zhang, JL., Christie, P. et al. Influence of inoculation with Glomus mosseae or Acaulospora morrowiae on arsenic uptake and translocation by maize. Plant Soil 311, 235–244 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-008-9677-2

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