Growth response of three native timber species to soils with different arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculum potentials in South Cameroon: Indigenous inoculum and effect of addition of grass inoculum

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 210, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 283-290

  Onguene, N A ^a   Kuyper, T W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Distemonanthus benthamianus; Entandrophragma utile; Grass inoculum; Inoculation; Terminalia superba

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOASSAY; BIOMASS; FUNGI; GREENHOUSES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

DRY WEIGHT; GRASS; ROOT COLONIZATION; SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; GROWTH RESPONSE; INOCULATION; REGENERATION; SILVICULTURE; TROPICAL FOREST;

AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL TESTS; BIOMASS; FORESTS; FUNGI; GREENHOUSES; PLANTS; SEEDS;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAE; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; DISTEMONANTHUS; DISTEMONANTHUS BENTHAMIANUS; ENTANDROPHRAGMA; ENTANDROPHRAGMA UTILE; FUNGI; MUSANGA; MUSANGA CECROPIOIDES; PASPALUM; PASPALUM CONJUGATUM; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA SUPERBA;

EID: 17844367350     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.02.038     Document Type: Article

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