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Endomycorrhizal inoculum improves growth of nursery-grown sweetgum seedlings

Sweetgum seedlings grown on fumigated seedbeds under operational conditions in two southern forest nurseries showed significant growth increases when inoculated with an endomycorrhizal fungus. Height growth, root collar diameter, and endomycorrhizal infection of inoculated seedlings were respectively 37, 25 and 75 percent greater than noninoculated seedlings.


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Author(s): Richard 0. Barham

Event: Southern Nursery Conference: Eastern Session
1978 - Colonial Williamsburg, VA