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Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1 pp 97–110Cite as

Drought Stress and Mycorrhizal Plant

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It is recognized that mycorrhizas permit the plant to perform more efficiently under stressful and unfavorable conditions. Recent reports on plant growth under drought stress and mycorrhizas account for 3.7 % of the published papers on mycorrhizas. Stress affects soil physical and chemical properties, as well as plant performance, which affect soil microbes, including symbiotic populations. This chapter was done to explore the current information on the mycorrhizas symbioses with respect to the research results on plant growth as affected by drought. The increasing appreciation that in arid and semiarid regions, most plants are mycorrhizal showed that underground processes are essential for understanding of ecosystem function. Accordingly, important findings related to the benefits of mycorrhizal management by increasing drought tolerance are highlighted. Therefore, research paths that are necessary for the increased understating of mycorrhizal benefits and soil amendments under drought stress are discussed.

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M. Pagano is grateful to the Council for the Development of Higher Education at Graduate Level, Brazil (CAPES), for the postdoctoral scholarships granted.

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Pagano, M.C. (2014). Drought Stress and Mycorrhizal Plant. In: Miransari, M. (eds) Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses, Volume 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9466-9_5

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