Growth, carbon dioxide assimilation capacity and water-use efficiency of Pinus pinea L seedlings inoculated with different ectomycorrhizal fungi

Abstract

Mean water-use efficiency of inoculated seedlings (mean value 7.29 mol kmol-1) was significantly higher than that of the controls (5.06 mol kmol-1), linked to the double tendency, neither being statistically significant, of infected plants to exhibit higher CO2 assimilation rates and lower transpiration rates than controls. -from Authors