Hi Matthias, thank you for this great content. In my opinion, it depends. From agricultural perspectives, plant (mainly crops) survival seems not a big issue in current agricultural practice. here I did not consider extreme conditons. People care more about quality and quantity of food. But in ecological restoration, particularly in post-mining sites where top soil was completely removed. Plant survival is a big issue which further compromise the successful of ecological restoration. There are few examples to use AMF to improve plant establishment in field. However, outcomes are not so compelling. As you know, filed conditions are alway sophisticated, and it is hard to uncover the single effect of AMF.
Yes, exactly, agree completely. This is what I meant - in agriculture plant survival is not interesting/ relevant, this is only the case in natural ecosystems, and of course restoration is the context in which this comes up most.
This is right, the establishment period can be long and very demanding for the plant during the early stage of the establishment and deployment of the network.
I remember during my PhD work, I was assessing the AMF inoculum on Prunus africana seedlings which is a tree endemic in some African countries, so I had to conduct the experiment in a nursery for almost 12 months in order to observe any changes, encompass the survival.
Hi Matthias, thank you for this great content. In my opinion, it depends. From agricultural perspectives, plant (mainly crops) survival seems not a big issue in current agricultural practice. here I did not consider extreme conditons. People care more about quality and quantity of food. But in ecological restoration, particularly in post-mining sites where top soil was completely removed. Plant survival is a big issue which further compromise the successful of ecological restoration. There are few examples to use AMF to improve plant establishment in field. However, outcomes are not so compelling. As you know, filed conditions are alway sophisticated, and it is hard to uncover the single effect of AMF.
Yes, exactly, agree completely. This is what I meant - in agriculture plant survival is not interesting/ relevant, this is only the case in natural ecosystems, and of course restoration is the context in which this comes up most.
This is right, the establishment period can be long and very demanding for the plant during the early stage of the establishment and deployment of the network.
I remember during my PhD work, I was assessing the AMF inoculum on Prunus africana seedlings which is a tree endemic in some African countries, so I had to conduct the experiment in a nursery for almost 12 months in order to observe any changes, encompass the survival.
Thanks, Yves!