Articles
MYCORRHIZAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN FORESTRY
Article number
496_54
Pages
439 – 444
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Abstract
Urban trees, forest trees once-removed, have the same biological needs as forest trees.
Many attributes of forest soils and tree roots are suppressed in the adverse soil conditions found in many man-made landscapes.
One requirement that must be addressed in these landscapes is the microbial root partnerships that evolved with trees in their former forest environment.
Commercially available mycorrhizal fungal and soil/root bacterial inoculants are effective in improving development of lateral roots, fine absorbing roots and mycorrhizae on transplanted trees and on the dysfunctional root systems of established trees growing in urban, nonforest-like, man-made landscapes.
Many attributes of forest soils and tree roots are suppressed in the adverse soil conditions found in many man-made landscapes.
One requirement that must be addressed in these landscapes is the microbial root partnerships that evolved with trees in their former forest environment.
Commercially available mycorrhizal fungal and soil/root bacterial inoculants are effective in improving development of lateral roots, fine absorbing roots and mycorrhizae on transplanted trees and on the dysfunctional root systems of established trees growing in urban, nonforest-like, man-made landscapes.
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Authors
Donald H. Marx
Keywords
mycorrhizae, bacteria, forest soil processes, commercial inoculants
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