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["Michele Stanton" <6ducks@gmail.com>]

Hi James,

To answer your questions, you'll first need to do a literature search for published research on the subject.

Your advisor or a good librarian should be able to guide you to the best databases to use to find what's out there in the peer-reviewed journals.

Agricola and CABS are two good databases that come to mind. Not all of the databases that natural science majors use contain results from some of the agricultural journals--for example, see if you can find databases that include results from HortScience and HortTech journals, among others. 

It is my understanding that many species of endomycorrhizae are fairly specific in their affinities.  In the 'Materials and Methods' section of articles, the authors may list their sources of inoculum. The following is a sample article of the sort you might find:

Happy Hunting!

Michele Stanton, M.S.

Instructor of Horticulture

The University of Cincinnati

 

 

Aptitude for mycorrhizal root colonization in Prunus rootstocks

Cinta Calvet ^{, , a}, Victoria Estaún ^a, Amèlia Camprubí ^a, Adriana Hernández-Dorrego ^b, Jorge Pinochet ^c and María Angeles Moreno ^d

^a Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA), Departament de Protecció Vegetal, Ctra. de Cabrils s/n, 08348 Cabrils, Barcelona, Spain
^b Sustancias y Tecnologías Naturales (SYTEN), Apdo. 260, 43830 Torredembarra, Tarragona, Spain
^c Agromillora Catalana S.A., El Rebato s/n, 08739 T.M. Subirats, Barcelona, Spain
^d Dept. de Pomología, Estación Experimental Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain
Accepted 4 August 2003.  Available online 14 October 2003.

Abstract

Eighteen Prunus rootstock cultivars were inoculated with three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi under greenhouse conditions in order to evaluate their affinity for mycorrhizal colonization. The rootstocks were peach–almond hybrids, peaches, plums and cherries of Spanish, French and Italian origin. Mycorrhizal colonization was low in plants inoculated with Glomus mosseae (Nicol. and Gerd.) Gerdemann and Trappe, and Glomus etunicatum Becker and Gerdemann. In contrast, Glomus intraradices Schenck and Smith, proved to be the most infective endophyte, achieving the highest mycorrhizal colonization rate in most of the rootstocks evaluated. Species of Prunus insititia L. were the only botanical group to show a consistently high affinity for mycorrhizal colonization with G. intraradices.

Author Keywords: Author Keywords: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Glomus; Prunus rootstocks; Stone fruit crops

Corresponding author. Tel.: +34-93-7507511; fax: +34-93-7533954.

Scientia Horticulturae
Volume 100, Issues 1-4, 19 March 2004, Pages 39-49