SELECTION ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI EFFICIENT FOR GROWTH OF LEGUMES Mimosa artemisiana HERINGER & PAULA

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ABSTRACT: This study aimed to evaluate the symbiotic efficiency of four AMF species in promove growth and nutrition the Mimosa artemisiana. The seeds were inoculated with rhizobium and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Glomus clarum (Nicolson & Schenck), Glomus etunicatum (Becker & Gerdemann), Gigaspora margarita (Becker & Hall) and Scutelospora heterogama (Nicol & Gerd) Walker & Sanders in a soil fertilized to achieve 5 mg/kg and P disponible. Glomus clarum was the fungi increase growing shoot, N, P, K, contents and nodulation of Mimosa artemisiana the non-innoculated  in relation to control and was the most efficient AMF to benefit  the growth of Mimosa artemisiana. The inoculation of Glomus clarum is recommended to growth Mimosa artemisiana seedlings.   KEY-WORDS: Gigaspora margarita, Glomus clarum, Glomus etunicatum, mycorrhizae, Scutellospora heterogama