| Mycorrhizal associations in Smallanthus sonchifolius (Poepp. & Endl.) H. Robinson (Asteraceae), Yacon, an ancient Andean crop and Smallanthus macroscyphus (Baker ex Martius) A. Grau, wild yacon, a close wild relative are described for the frst time. Yacon fbrous roots growing under feld conditions have high levels of colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (86 %). Other fungi colonizing roots included dark septate endophytes (45 %) and unidentifed fungi that are probably saprophytic (25 %) were observed. Only 9% of the samples analyzed were not colonized by any type of fungi. Glomus, Acaulospora, Scutellospora, Gigaspora and Pacispora were the main genera of arbuscular mycorrhiza identifed. A similar high degree of mycorrhizal colonization was... |
