Abstract:

The pot experiment was conducted in the greenhouse to study the effects of five kinds of different arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) strains on growth of Chrysanthemum morifolium ‘Jinba’ by measuring some morphological and physiological indicators at young plants and blooming stages. The results showed that AMF treatments could significantly improve the plant height, leaf numbers, leaf area, root length and petal area of C. morifolium compared to the control of no inoculation. The AMF treatments could enhance root activity, increase the soluble sugar content in the roots, leaves and petals (except for Glomus mosseae), and thus improve the osmotic adjustment. As a result, G. intraradlces was screened out as the best strain for enhancing the growth of C. morifolium.