Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization Enhanced Early Growth of Mallotus paniculatus and Albizia saman under Nursery Conditions in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Table 1

Percentage arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization, shoot nutrient concentration, shoot nutrient content, and shoot dry weight of control seedlings or Gigaspora decipiens or Glomus clarum inoculated Mallotus paniculatus and Albizia saman seedlings six months after sowing under nursery conditions in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Plant	Treatment	AM	Shoot nutrient concentration		Shoot nutrient content		Shoot
species		colonization	P	N	P	N	dry weight
		(%)	(mg/g)	(mg/g)	(mg/plant)	(mg/plant)	(g/plant)
M. paniculatus	Control	0 (0.00)*	2.49 (0.11)^b	19.14 (0.27)^a	1.09 (0.16)^b	14.52 (0.69)^b	0.8 (0.04)^c
	G. decipiens	90 (4.85)^a	4.18 (0.52)^a	13.45 (1.21)^b	6.89 (0.71)^a	22.26 (1.58)^a	1.7 (0.10)^a
	G. clarum	89 (3.28)^a	5.15 (0.69)^a	10.60 (2.04)^b	5.58 (0.99)^a	11.76 (2.09)^b	1.1 (0.05)^b
A. saman	Control	0 (0.00)*	2.15 (0.19)^a	39.97 (0.66)^a	6.85 (0.76)^c	130.23 (16.94)^b	3.3 (0.40)^b
	G. decipiens	53 (7.22)^a	2.19 (0.03)^a	39.11 (1.45)^a	25.31 (2.65)^a	451.12 (47.04)^a	11.6 (1.24)^a
	G. clarum	52 (7.62)^a	1.79 (0.09)^a	37.72 (2.00)^a	14.67 (1.88)^b	309.23 (42.99)^a	8.2 (0.87)^a

∗Values in the parentheses are standard error (SE). Different letters within the same plant species indicate a statistically significant difference (𝑃<0.05) determined by the Tukey HSD test (𝑛=5).