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The Effectiveness of Two Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Species on Growth of Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Seedlings

Maria Viva Rini, Azizah Hashim and Mohd. Idris Zainal Abidin

Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 19, Issue 2&3, December 1996

Keywords: arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), cocoa, effectiveness, seedling growth

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A pot experiment was conducted to study the effectiveness of two arbuscular mycorrhiza ( A M ) species in enhancing growth o f cocoa seedlings. Cocoa seedlings o f hybrid U I T I x Na32 inoculated with Glomus mosseae and Scutellospora calospora either as a single inoculum or as a mixed inoculum and an uninoculated control were grown in 2 kg sterilized Tai Tak series soil. The experiment was a single factor experiment arranged in a completely randomized design, with type o f inoculum as a factor with four replications. O f the four treatments used, plants inoculated with mixed inoculum Glomus mosseae and Scutellospora calospora gave more pronounced and significant vegetative growth and higher percentage o f root colonization than the other treatments. Maximum plant height and total leaf area o f 43.7 cm and 1819.2 cm2 respectively were obtained from seedlings inoculated with mixed inoculum compared to seedlings given either G. mosseae (37.9 cm dan 1007.2 cm2) , or S. calospora (32.3 cm and 1316 cm2) and control (28.5 cm and 736.7 cm2) . The highest percentage o f root colonization (7 2% ) was also recorded from seedlings inoculated with mixed inoculum followed by those given S. calospora (5 4% ) and single inoculum G. mosseae (4 3% ).

ISSN 1511-3701

e-ISSN 2231-8542

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JTAS-0128-1996

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