Isolate Identity Determines Plant Tolerance to Pathogen Attack in Assembled Mycorrhizal Communities
Figure 2
Effect of different AMF assemblages on the shoot to root ratio of L. vulgare.
Each grey and white bar represents the treatment mean ±1 SE either in absence or presence of R. solani, respectively. Open, lighter and heavier diagonal patterns correspond to: single (i.e., i – R. intraradices/c – R. clarus/e - C. etunicatum), dual or tri isolate assemblages, respectively. Horizontal solid and dashed lines correspond to the control mean ±1 SE, respectively. Those over the grey bars correspond to the negative control whereas those over the white bars correspond to the pathogen only (i.e., R. solani alone) control. Asterisks represent significant differences to the control calculated by Tukey's HSD (*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001).