Yi-Jong Kil 1, Ju-Kyeong Eo 2 and Ahn-Heum Eom 1*
1Department of Biology Education, Korea National University of Education, Chungbuk 363-791, Korea
2Department of Forest Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Correspondence to eomah@knue.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) April 1, 2012, 40(1):1-6.
https://doi.org/10.4489/KJM.2012.40.1.001
(Received December 29, 2011. Revised January 12, 2012. Accepted February 12, 2012)
Published: April 1, 2012.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
In this study, soil samples were collected from cultivated fields of 1-5 year old Korean ginseng in Geumsan, Korea. Spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were extracted from soils and identified using morphological characteristics and 18s rDNA sequences of the spores. Total 10 species of AMF were identified: Acaulospora longula, Archaeospora trappei, Glomus caledonium, Glomus etunicatum, Glomus intraradices, Glomus mosseae, Glomus sp., Paraglomus occultum, Paraglomus brasilianum, and Scutellospora heterogama. Relative abundance of spores of A. trappei were increased with increase of cultivation period of the ginseng. However, relative abundance of other species of AMF and Shannon diversity (H') of AMF were significantly decreased with the increase of cultivation periods of the ginseng.
AMF, Acaulospora trappei, Cultivation period, Panax ginseng, Species diversity