Ectomycorhization de Cedrus atlantica en conditions contrôlées: Efficacité de deux formes d'inoculum mycélien

Abstract

The effect of two mycelial inocula (mycelia grown in peat-vermiculite saturated by a nutritive medium, or entrapped into alginate) of two ectomycorrhizal species (Tricholoma tridentinum var. cedretorum and Hebeloma sinapizans) was tested, under controlled conditions, on the mycorrhization of Cedar seedlings grown on mineral substrate. One year after inoculation, the percentage of infected root tips and root ergosterol contents were higher with cedars inoculated using T. tridentinum peat-vermiculite inoculum than using alginate one. The opposite results were obtained with H. sinapizans. The degrees of mycorrhization of the seedlings inoculated with T. tridentinum were higher than those of the seedlings inoculated with H. sinapizans. The mycorrhization of Cedrus atlantica seedlings using mycelial inocula was thus performed under controlled conditions which may be reproducible. The consequences of the inoculation of seedlings on their shoot and/or root biomass vary with the inoculum form and fungal species.