Fungal CommunityPresents by Sumera SaleemRoll no: 373Semester: 5th

Fungal Community Role in: Soil Plants growth

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Soil Fungi Fungal communities existing in soil in

arrangement of web called mycelium. Fungi increases the:

Soil organic matter Soil aggregation Fungal communities present in soil also

decreases the soil erosion.

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Soil Organic Matter

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Soil Aggregation Fungi develop in stretched thin strands

known as hyphae. Size of fungal hyphae in soil has been generate to be connected to the quantity of aggregates in the soil. Fungi support to produce aggregates in soil then their hyphae entangle soil elements and they create cross relations between soil particles. fungi and mycorrhizal fungi that settle new organic matter and are thought to be most significant for support aggregation.

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Soil Aggregation

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Soil Erosion Mycelium presents on soil grasps the

soil and inhibits from erosion.

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Mycorrhiza Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic link composed

of roots of vascular plant and fungus.

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Mycorrhiza There are two type of mycorrhiza Endomycorrhiza: An Endomycorrhiza is

kind of mycorrhiza in which fungus infiltrates cortical cells of roots of vascular plant. 

Ectomycorrhiza: An ectomycorrhiza presents outside root, fungal mycelium produce an wide system within leaf litter and soil.

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Ectomycorrhizae and Endomycorrhizae

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Mycorrhizae Advantages  Improved nutrient and water uptake. Lessening of irrigation necessities. Decrease want for fertilizer. Improved drought resistance. Improved pathogen resistance. Improved stress tolerance and plant

health. Greater transplanting success.

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Plants Interconnect with Each Other with Assistance of Mycorrhizae.

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Communication Among Plants Through Fungi The link between plant’s roots is

intracellular and fungi. There is chemical message working beside with nutrient exchange. The association is symbiotic and has progressed over thousands of ages. It has been exposed that it drives additional than a fungus and a plant; that fungi also attach adjacent plants to each other. Chemical message drives between multiple plants through fungi.

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Communication Among Plants Through Fungi In forests, it has furthermore been exposed

that once trees expire, they network their residual nutrients out into fungi net to nourish other trees. Or else a vile tree may obtain nutrients from in good health trees. Word ‘mother tree’ has been practical to the main trees in forest for example these grandmothers really control over the health and well being of all nearby trees.

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