Abstract
Four consecutive trifoliate leaves of 56-day-old symbiotic or nonsymbiotic soybean plants were evaluated individually for CO2 exchange rates (CER), leaf area and dry weight, and leaf N, P, and starch concentrations. Plants had been inoculated with the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungus Glomus mosseae and Rhizobium japonicum, with either of the endophytes alone, or with neither at time of planting. Plants lacking one or both endophytes received N and/or P fertilizers to produce plants of equal total leaf dry weight in all four treatments. Photosynthetic P-use efficiency (CER per unit leaf P) was higher in the leaves of VAM plants than in P-fertilized plants regardless of the N source (N2 fixation or combined N). Photosynthetic N-use efficiency was also higher in VAM than in non-VAM plants, but it was affected by the N source, with higher CER in the nodulated plants. The greatest differences in CER, starch accumulation and leaf area were found between the nonsymbiotic plants and those with both endophytes. Statistical evaluations of leaf parameters for treatment or nutrient concentration (N and P) effects between the tri-partite and the nonsymbiotic treatments showed significant changes in concentration of P, but not N, with decreasing leaf age. Both endophytes apparently enhance CO2 fixation at N and/or P concentrations lower than those of the nonsymbiotic plants. The effects of the endophytes on CO2 fixation were additive.
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