Effect of Different Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Growth and Physiology of Maize at Ambient and Low Temperature Regimes

Table 1

Effects of AM on plant height, total dry weight, shoot dry weight, root dry weight, and root-shoot ratio of maize seedlings under ambient temperature and low temperature regimes.

Temperature	Inoculation	Plant	Total dry	Shoot dry	Root dry	Root-shoot
		height (cm)	weight (g/plant)	weight (g/plant)	weight (g/plant)	ratio
Ambient	NM	61.1 ± 1.9	0.72 ± 0.07	0.58 ± 0.07	0.14 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.03
	As	62.9 ± 1.9	0.75 ± 0.03	0.62 ± 0.03	0.13 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.03
	Ge	67.8 ± 2.4	0.72 ± 0.07	0.59 ± 0.07	0.14 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.03
	Gi	64.3 ± 1.4	0.77 ± 0.08	0.64 ± 0.07	0.13 ± 0.01	0.21 ± 0.03
	Gt	65.8 ± 2.5	0.92 ± 0.07	0.76 ± 0.06	0.16 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01
Low	NM	57.2 ± 1.2	0.69 ± 0.03	0.55 ± 0.03	0.14 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.02
	As	54.9 ± 1.5	0.70 ± 0.15	0.54 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.02
	Ge	57.3 ± 1.5	0.66 ± 0.05	0.51 ± 0.04	0.15 ± 0.01	0.31 ± 0.03
	Gi	54.7 ± 1.7	0.74 ± 0.08	0.57 ± 0.06	0.18 ± 0.02	0.31 ± 0.02
	Gt	56.7 ± 0.7	0.75 ± 0.05	0.58 ± 0.05	0.17 ± 0.01	0.30 ± 0.03
𝑃 value
Temperature (df = 1)		0.001	0.051	0.010	0.010	0.011
AM (df = 4)		0.219	0.077	0.200	0.302	0.936
Temperature × AM (df = 4)		0.395	0.663	0.709	0.540	0.789

NM: non-AM fungus; As: Acaulospora scrobiculata; Ge: Glomus etunicatum; Gi: G. intraradices; Gt: G. tortuosum. In each column, values are expressed as mean ± SE.