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Evaluating Alder-Endophyte (Alnus acuminata-Frankia- Mycorrhizae) InteractionsJ. C. Gordon a , R. O. Russo a & G. P. Berlyn ba Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT,06511b Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT,06511, [email protected] online: 18 Oct 2008.

To cite this article: J. C. Gordon , R. O. Russo & G. P. Berlyn (1992) Evaluating Alder-Endophyte (Alnus acuminata-Frankia- Mycorrhizae) Interactions, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 1:1, 93-110, DOI: 10.1300/J091v01n01_06

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Evaluating Alder-Endophyte (Alnus acuminata-Frankia- Mycorrhizae)

Interactions: Growth Response

of Alnus acuminata Seedlings to Inoculation with Frankia Strain Ar13

and Glomus intra-radices, Under Three Phosphorus Levels

R. 0. Russo J. C. Gordon G. P. Berlyn

ABSTRACT. The objective of this study was to compare the inter- action between Frankia and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) on the growth response of Alnus acwninata H.B.K. seed- lings under three different phosphorus levels. Alnus acuminata seed- lings grown in sterile vermiculite, were inoculated with Frankia strain HFPArI3 and/or VAM (as Glomus inwa-radices) under three

R. 0. Russo. J. C. Gordon and G. P. Berlvn are affiliated with Yale University, - .

School of or& try and Environmental ~tuckes, New Haven, CT 0651 1. This research was partially supported by the A.W. Mellon Foundation through

funds provided to the Program in Below Ground Ecology of the Y ale University School of Forestry and Environmcntal Studies. Thanks are due to the Program Director, Dr. Kristiina Vogt for her advice and support. The authors also wish to acknowledge with thanks the cooperation of Dr. Martin Ghent of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT; Dr. T i Wood and Ms. Pat Young for providing both inocu1a;'and the Tropical Agricultural Center for Re- search and Training (CATIE), Turrialba. Costa Rica for the seed material.

Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Vol. l(1) 1993 O 1993 by The Haworth Press, Jnc. All rights reserved. 93

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phosphorus levels (10.50 and 100 pg g'). After 120 days diiferenc- es in growth were observed at the 50 pg g" P level between nodu- lated and non-nodulated plants; whether inoculated with Frankia + VAM or just with VAM. Interaction between Frankia and VAM was positive with respect to nodule weight at 50 pg g7' P level. The data suggest that the presence of VAM can compete with the nod- ules as a carbohydrate sink. At increasing levels of P the presence of Frankia alone statistically increased growth over that of the con- trol.

INTRODUCTION

Alnus acuminata H.B.K. (Furlow, 1977) is an actinorhizal tree, com- monly associated with pastures on upland areas of Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela. The species is host to the nitrogen-fixing actinomycete Frankia. Its roots are also infected by endomycorrhizal fungi, resulting in a tripartite symbiotic association among Alnus, Frankia, and vesicular- arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) (Russo, 1990). The existence of tripartite symbiotic associations among actinorhizal plants, Frankia, and VAM has been previously reported by Rose and Trappe (1980) for Alnus spp., by Rose and Youngberg (1981) for Ceanothus velutinus, by Gauthier, Diem and Domrnergues (1983) for Casuarina equisetifolia, and by Gardner, Clelland and Scott (1984) for Hippophue rhamnoides. However, the inter- action between Frankia and VAM and the effects that such interaction may have on lhe host initial growth is still little known. It is expected that increased phosphorus uptake due to the action of VAM might stimulate nodule growth of the host plant. This leads to lhe hypothesis that simulta- neous inoculation with Frankia and VAM would increase nodule forma- tion. Thus, an increase in plant biomass should occur because of greater amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus resources available to the host. Car- bon allocation and nutrient content of A. acuminata seedlings should also be modified. If the plants are well supplied with nutrient resources and water, allocation to roots and the root-shoot ratio should decrease. In order to test these hypotheses, the operational phase of this study was to com- pare effects of inoculation with Frankia and VAM on the growth response of Alnus acuminata seedlings under three different phosphorus levels.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Alnus acuminata H.B.K. seeds (collection #2407) from the Latin Amer- ican Forest Seed Bank at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica were sowed on

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August 20, 1986 in germination trays containing sterile sand, in the Gree- ley greenhouse at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut. On October 10, 1986, when seedlings were around 2 cm in height, they were transplanted to 600 cc capacity green plastic pots. The vermiculite substrate used was previously oven sterilized for 30 minutes at 82OC (Shurtleff, Edwards, Courter & Randell, 1983). The temperature in the greenhouse on a daily basis ranged from 10°C to 2S°C. Lowest temperatures occurred around 4:00 to 8:00 a.m. and highest around 12:OO to 4:00 p.m. Maximum photosynthetically active photon flux density (PPFD) was ca. 1200 pmol m" s". Daylength was extended to 12 hours by fluorescent lamps mounted horizontally 0.6 meter over the pots.

Seedlings received the following treatments: (1) Frankia Inoculation, F; (2) VAM Inoculation, V; (3) F + V Inoculation; (4) No inoculation (C). Three different phosphorus levels P10, P50, PI00 (10,50, and 100 pg g", equivalent to 0.32 mmol, 1.61 mmol and 3.22 mmol respectively) were also supplied to the aforementioned treatments. Twelve replications were originally established for each treatment for each P-level, considering each pot as an experimental unit. The 144 pots were randomly arranged on the southside of a greenhouse bench. But at 120 days only ten replicates were harvested because a subset of two plants per treatment was left for further investigations.

Frankia inoculum (HFPArI3) was obtained from Hamard Forest cul- tures. GIomus inrra-radices (Nutri-Link Research Grade, lot # 8602) was used as VAM inoculum. All inoculations were made simultaneously with transplanting. Every seedling was watered daily with distilled water and treated twice a weck with a nutrient solution (Hoagland with 20 mg NPi- ter), and with three different levels of phosphorus (P10, P50, and P100, pg g-') during the 120-day growth period. Variables measured were plant height (cm), number of leavcs, leaf dry weight (mg), leaf area (cm2), stem dry weight (mg), root dry weight (mg), nodule dry weight (mg), and per- centage of VAM infection in roots (%). Dry weights were obtained on an oven-dry (70°C) basis. Leaf area was measured with a LICOR portable area meter model LI-3000. Nitrogenase activity of these plants was report- ed in a previous paper (Russo, 1989). For assessment of mycorrhizal infection fine root segments, around 1 cm in length, were excised from the harvested plants, bleached in 10% KOH for 24 hours at room tempera- ture and stained with 0.05% trypan blue in lactoglycerol following a mod- ification of the procedure of Phillips and Hayman (1970). Fifty root seg- ments from each treatment were mounted on microscope slides in clear lactoglycerol and examined microscopically for presence or absence of VAM structures. Differences between treatmenls were tested by analysis of variance using the statistical package STATVIEW (Abacus Concepts,

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Berkeley. CA). Infection percentage values were transformed with the arcsine transformation before analysis.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Growth in height-Total height of seedlings was the first variable eval- uated 50 days after inoculation. At that time no statistically significant differences were observed between treatments, but the means of V at PI0 and F at P50 were higher than the other height means.

By the end of the experiment the best height performance at PI0 was shown by F and V, but this changed at PSO where the nodulated plants (F and F + V) were significantly taller than C and V; and at PlOO only F maintained its positive effect; F + V fell to where it was equal to C, but both C and F + V were higher that V, which showed very poor growth at PlOO (Figure 1). It is evident that F alone can play a decisive role in height growth when P is adequately available. Of the three levels of phos- phorus supplied it appears that P50 was closest -to the optimum level while PI0 was well below optimum and PlOO above optimum for height growth.

Shoot dry weight-At P10 there was no difference between the C and the F + V trealment for total shoot dry weight, or for either leaf or stem dry weight (Figures 2, 3, and 4).

Plants inoculated with F or V both showed slight but significantly higher (P < 0.05) leaf dry weight than plants inoculated with C or F + V. At P50 there was a significant improvement of the F + V and the F treat- ment over that of C and V for total shoot dry weight, leaf and stem dry weight. Another change occurred at PlOO where only F resulted in in- creased leaf dry weight whereas V was inhibitory to leaf dry weight. V + F gave essentially the same results as C (Figures 2.3, and 4). The higher. shoot weight of F treated plants at PlOO could be attributed to an increase in leaf dry weight. The stem weight actually decreased significantly by 0.3 fold.

Root weight-At PI0 the highest root weight values were reached by V inoculated plants (299.2 mg). These values (Figure 5) were significantly different from all other treatments (ranging 136.5 to 211.2 mg). At P50 there were no statistically significant differences among treatments, but the highest mean value occurred in F inoculated plants (292.1 mg) and the lowest one in the control (214.2 mg). At P100, the mean root dry weight of F inoculated plants was clearly and significantly (P c 0.01) higher (297.3 mg) than all the other treatments (less than 200 mg). There were

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no statistically significant differences among the other treatments but V had the lowest values and the values for F + V were also less than that of C. This continues the trend that as phosphorus level increases above a certain level the presence of V can result in less root biomass. Thus the carbon cost of V becomes greater than the gain, and the presence of F, in addition to V, cannot entirely compensate for this carbon cost despite the fact that only F as compared to all other treatments showed greatly en- hanced root biomass over that of the control.

Summarizing, at P50 there is a significant improvement of the above- ground variables for F and the F + V treatments over that of C and V. The V treatment did not result in increased leaf dry weight. Another dra- matic change occurs at PlOO where only F alone results in increased leaf dry weight whereas V alone is inhibitory to leaf dry weight while V + F gives essentially the same results as C. While not statistically significant, the double inoculation treatment V + F was slightly less promotive of this parameter than the control.

After 120 days, at P10 there was a difference in favor of the V treat- ment in total plant weight, shoot, stem and leaf weight. However, F alone surpassed V in promoting leaf area at P10. This enhanced growth at PI0 with V inoculation is considered as supporting the concept that at low levels of phosphorus mycorrhizae can enhance phosphorus uptake. Never- theless, the magnitude of a number of V-enhanced parameters at PI0 is below the mean values found at higher P-levels with other treatments. For example V treated plants at P10 had a mean total dry weight (Figure 6) of 1029 mg while the maximum total weight occurred at P50 in F + V treated plants (1417.5 mg) and the F treated plants (1415.8 mg).

At P50 there were larger values of the measured above ground attri- butes (total plant, leaf, and stem weight, and plant height) for the nod- ulated plants (F and F + V) than for the non-nodulated plants (V and C). This is especially striking in Ule case of plant height and leaf area (Figure 7) where nodulated plants are clearly taller and have higher leaf area, in particular F + V had the highest values of these parameters. Interestingly, the effect of F + V drops precipitously at P100, suggesting that there is a restricted window of environmental conditions and growth parameters where the benefits of double inoculation outweigh the costs. This is a common pattern in these data. At PlOO only the F-treatment showed high- er means than the control in: plant height, leaf dry weight, leaf area, and shoot weight and total weight. F + V was the same as C, but the lowest means were that of the V treatment. It seems that VAM causes depression in growUl even when compared with the non-inoculated control. A similar pattern was shown in all shoot related variables (plant height, number of

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Figure 5. Root dry weight of Alnus ncuminata inoculated with Frankin and VAM at different phosphorus levels.

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Exogenous P supplied, pg g-1

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leaves, leaf dry weight, and leaf and shoot biomass) while both groups of nodulated plants showed greater above ground growth at P50, only F inoculated plants grew better at P100. It is speculated that at PlOO the VAM became parasitic. However, it is possible that the seedlings were harvested too soon to allow the tripartite association the optimum time to reach its full potential. As discussed by Gardner (1986) the allocation of plant photosynthates by the two microsymbionts is competitive and could be critical in the early stage of plant development. It has been suggested that application of inocula at different times might alleviate this problem (see Gardner, 1986).

Gauthier, Diem and Dommergues (1983) reported preliminary results of a research on Frankia and Glomus mosseae associated with Casuarina equisefifolia, finding that total dry weight was more than 80% greater in seedlings simultaneously inoculated with Frankia sp. and Glornus mosseae than in those inoculated with Frankia sp., and no differences between the control and the VAM inoculated plants were found. These authors worked with 10 pg g" of P for all the treatments with the exce lion of one in P which inoculation was by crushed nodules and 90 pg g P was applied to the plants.

Carbon allocation-The allocation of carbon to different plant parts was significantly affected by treatment but not by P level. However, there were some slight changes in the allocation patterns with differences in P- level. Carbohydrates allocated to leaves were significantly higher (P < 0.05) in F and F + V treatments followed by the control. The allocation to leaves in V was significantly lower at all P levels. Allocation to stem showed only differences at P 50 in favor of F alone and was significantly lower in V alone treatment. The larger differences were observed in root allocation. They were in favor of the V treatment at all P levels. Thus, for example, the V treated plants were smaller and had less leaf and root biomass at P100, but Ule percentage allocation to roots was greater. How- ever, at PI0 the leaf and root biomass were the largest with the V-treat- ment and the percentage allocation to roots was still larger than for all the other treatments including the control. The allocation percentage to roots in V treated plants did not change very much with P-level (29% to 31%) despite the fact that the biomass of all the plant organs including the roots changed greatly over these P-levels. Leaf Weight Ratio (LWR) was signif- icantly lower in the V than in the other treatments regardless P level.

These changes in carbon allocation between shoot and root cause a change on the SIR ratio, which decreases whcn V are presenl. However, this effect tended to be overcome by the effect of F at increasing levels of P.

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Nodulation-Nodule dry weight (Figure 8) was not significantly differ- ent between double inoculation by F +V and V inoculation alone at P10. However, at P50 nodule dry weight per plant was significantly higher in double inoculated plants. At PI00 there was again no significant differ- ence between V and F + V. Thus we must reject our initial hypothesis that F + V inoculation would increase nodule formation in all conditions. Also it is evident that V was more effective at P50 whereas it was expect- ed to be more effective at P10, especially since the V plants had the larg- est roots of any of the treatments at P I0 and the roots decreased in bio- mass at P50. The mechanism by which V can enhance nodule dry weight at the middle P50, but not in the higher or lower phosphorus levels is not clear. The ratio of nitrogen and phosphorus in the nutrient solution may be involved. Specific activity of nitrogenase, as reported in a previous papcr (Russo, 1989), showed no difference between F inoculated and F + V inoculated plants, with the exception of the plants double inoculated at P10 level where the ethylene production was 140% higher than the mean of the rest of the treatments. It now appears that this effect is due to smaller but more active nodules at P10. The results at P I0 have rele- vance to the field conditions because in natural soil conditions where Alnus acurninata grows in association with pastures on volcanic soils in Coronado. Costa Rica, the P-level averages 5 pg g.' of soil. It is in such conditions that mycorrhizae may help to improve nitrogen fixation.

VAM infection-Analysis of variance of the means of percentage of V infection between V and F + V inoculation indicated that they were not significant at the 5% level, but were significant at the 8% level. However, the proportions of infected roots (bctween 9.7% and 18.7%, Figure 9) were low in general compared with those found in the field. These rela- tively low percentages of infection could be attributed to the fact that roots were grown in pure vermiculite and supplied with nutrients. Another explanation may be the fungal strain used; however, fungal strains in- volved in V are, in general, neither host specific nor geographically limit- ed, although local differences correlated with soil characteristics and mi- crobiota have been reported (Malloch, Pirozynski & Raven, 1980). While the infection percentages observed in these pot cultures inoculated with Glomus intra-radices were somehow lower than that observed in Alnus VAM-infected roots collected from the field, mycelial growth, vesicles and arbuscules observed in the pots experiments were probably denser than those of the field. Visual vesicle counts were higher at the PI0 level although no statistical analyses were performed. Hicks and Loynacham (1987) reported that phosphorus fertilization reduced V infection in soy- bean by an avcrage of 80% and that vesicle counts were also reduced

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