How Could Soil Properties Been Related to Samples of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi From Mexico

Jhosue Arturo Andrade Pérez, and Mariana Saldivar Anaya

Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Abstract: Research carried out with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), has gained great importance since it has been identified how it facilitates the establishment of plants and the uptake of low-available soil nutrients, despite being an obligate symbiont, the AMF does not be presented in the same way in all soils and crops, so that’s why the research focuses on understanding what are the conditions that promote its establishment in different environments, one of the ways in which success in its propagation is identified is through the number of spores found in the soil, and to establish the differences between the samples, the physical-chemical analysis of the soil is used as a point of comparison, however, performing this analysis in the same study does not appear to be sufficient, so to be able to better place the results obtained in this study, it was decided to compare them with those obtained by other authors, mainly in Mexico, that way it was glimpsed a possible relationship between the abundance of AMF spores with properties such as density, pH, and electrical conductivity of the soil, in addition to its plant cover.

Key words: AMF, nutrients, soil, conditions, spores