Colonization and Spore Richness of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Araucaria Nursery Seedlings in Curitiba, Brazil

Table 2

Mean number of mycorrhizal spores of araucaria seedlings with ages between 6 months and 5 years grown in a nursery field in Curitiba, Brazil.

Mycorrhizal fungal species	Seedling age (year)
	6 months	1 year	2 years	3 years	5 years
Acaulospora scrobiculata	13	46	44	70	33
Dentiscutata heterogama	11	16	15	17	15
Gigaspora sp.	9	29	8	12	11
Glomus spinuliferum	31	114	53	129	118
Glomus sp. 1	40	28	40	62	34
Glomus sp. 2	91	142	55	161	141
Glomus sp. 3	101	187	82	111	176
Glomus sp. 4	48	153	57	73	148
Total of species	344	715	355	635	676

Means followed by the same letter in the lines do not differ by the Tukey test at .