Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Community Dynamics and Functioning in Different Rice Cultivation Systems
Ruwanthika Kalamulla, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Jaturong Kumla and Neelamanie Yapa* Author for corresponding; e-mail address: neelamanie@as.rjt.ac.lk
Volume: Vol.49 No.3 (Special Issue II : May 2022)
Review Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12982/CMJS.2022.049
Received: 14 December 2021, Revised: 3 March 2022, Accepted: 22 March 2022, Published: -
Citation: Kalamulla R., Karunarathna S.C., Kumla J. and Yapa N., Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Community Dynamics and Functioning in Different Rice Cultivation Systems, Chiang Mai Journal of Science, 2022; 49(3): 598-607. DOI 10.12982/CMJS.2022.049.
Abstract
As a main component of soil microbiota arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a benefi cial role in the agro-ecosystems. Introduction of AMF inoculum as a biofertilizer to the rice cultivation system is one of the environmentally healthy solutions that may increase crop productivity and yield, when compare to the non-AMF relationships. Within an ecosystem, both biotic and abiotic factors affect the diversity, distribution, and ecological role of AMF. Here we reviewed the effect of the variables including production area, environmental conditions, agricultural management systems, rice varieties, and different growth stages of the host on dynamics and structure of the AMF community mainly in the rice fi elds. Understanding of this co-relation is required to explore their future enrolment in agriculture. To ensure food security, identifi cation of all variables that may make indigenous AMF presence and active in different rice growing systems needs to be done in order to explore this specifi c fungus-root interaction.