Mycorrhization as a stress adaptation procedure

Abstract

Mycorrhizal symbiosis is attracting a continuously increasing interest from the scientific world, due to the beneficial role it plays in plants\textquoteright{} growth and development in natural, semi-natural and agricultural plant communities. Mycorrhizal associations are very essential in helping plants to survive in nutrient-deficient, degraded habitats or during stress periods and can be very advantageous in sustainable agriculture. Hence, it has become a major subject of both basic and applied research (see Gianinazzi and Schuepp 1994; Varma and Hock 1998).