Diversity of VAM fungi associated with the roots of weed plants collected from different sites of Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

In the present study total of thirty VAM fungal species belonging to 4 genera was recovered from roots and rhizosphere soil of selected weed plants. The result of the present investigation revealed that all the 10 weed viz. Parthenium hysterophorus L, Sida acuta Burm, Euphorbia hirta L., Lantana camara L., Achyranthes aspera L., Datura metel L., Leonitis nepetaefolia L., Ludwigia parviflora, Malva parviflora, Solanum torvum, belongs to different families were collected from in and around Jabalpur division of Madhya Pradesh, India and were investigated for the VAM fungi association. There was six genera of fungi belonging to Endogonaceae which have been shown to form mycorrhizal associations: Glomus, Gigaspora, Acaulospora, Entrophospora Sclerocystis and Scutellospora.