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Mycorrhization helper bacteria (MHBs) isolated and selected from the Douglas fir-Laccaria laccata symbiotic system have previously been shown to be fungus-specific: they promote ectomycorrhizal establishment of Laccaria laccata but inhibit mycorrhiza formation by other fungi. In this paper, two experiments in a nursery producing two years-old bare-root Douglas-fir planting stocks confirm the specificity of MHBs under field conditions. They also show that, by selectively helping the introduced L. laccata against the resident symbionts, MHBs are an interesting alternative (safer and easier) to soil fumigation for the success of routine controlled mycorrhization of planting stocks in forest nurseries.
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Duponnois, R., Garbaye, J., Bouchard, D. et al. The fungus-specificity of mycorrhization helper bacteria (MHBs) used as an alternative to soil fumigation for ectomycorrhizal inoculation of bare-root Douglas-fir planting stocks with Laccaria laccata . Plant Soil 157, 257–262 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00011054
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