Table 3.

Crop specific application of different mycorrhizal inoculants.

Mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilizer			Applied in crops		Dosages	Outcomes	References
Glomeraceae, Claroideoglomeraceae, Paraglomeraceae			Oryza sativa			The application of the mycorrhizal fungiboosted the growth of rice	Wang et al., 2015
Arbuscular Mycorrhizalfungi (AMF)			Oryza sativa			AMF has the propensity to raise the harvest index and may quicken the transfer of N and P from shoots and/or soils to rice grains, especially in flooded situations.	Solaiman and Hirata, 1995
Acaulospora, Rhizoglomus, Entrophospora, Claroideoglomus, Funneliformis and Gigaspora			Oryza sativa			Utilizing AM inocula in the corresponding habitats boost plant production and growth.	Xavier Martins and Rodrigues, 2020
Glomeromycotan Glomerales Rhizophagusirregularis			Oryza sativa			Enhances the production of rice. The AMF interactions with rice plants indicate the function of strigolactone (SLs) in presymbiotic molecular communication, mitochondrial energy metabolism, spore germination, and hyphal branch stimulation.	Mitra et al., 2021b, 2021c, 2024
Funneliformismosseae, F. geosporus, Claroideoglomusclaroideum, Glomus microaggregatum, and Rhizophagus irregularis			Oryza sativa		The inoculum had a spore density of approximately 10 spores per gram of inoculum.	Plants with higher AMF colonization show higher stomatal conductance and chlorophyll fluorescence, especially under drought, indicating nutrient and hormone-driven pathways for drought tolerance in rice.	Chareesri et al., 2020
AMF			Oryza sativa			The arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism in rice fields enhances overall growth of rice plant.	Bao et al., 2022
Glomus intraradices			Maize		The AMF inoculum comprised 100 AMF infective propagules g−1 of product. The inoculum was applied at 25 kg ha−1.	Integrated nutrient management systems after the utilization of AMF inoculation.	Cozzolino et al., 2013
AMF			Maize			Pomotes soil mycorrhizal activity and early mycorrhizal colonization of the next crop.	Njeru et al., 2014
Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungi			Maize			The level of maize mycorrhizal infection was connected with growth and yield of maize.	Boswell et al., 1998
AMF (Glomus mosseae, Glomus intraradices)			Maize		Prior to seed sowing, 900 g of inoculum (25 spores per gram) had been incorporated 5 cm beneath the seeds in each row of 5 m length.	The application of AMF greatly boosted the output of dry matter and green matter, even with restricted watering. The application of AMF caused the leaf and stem ratios to rise while the ear ratios decreased.	Celebi et al., 2010
Glomale fungi			Maize			Bestowed drought tolerance properties.	Jefwa et al., 2006
AMF			Maize			Maize growth using sterile substrate and non-sterile soil from native AMF communities promotes robust growth and blossoming, promoting local AMF usage in maize production farming techniques.	Alvarado-Herrejón et al., 2019
AMF			Wheat			AMF counteract the loss of biological fertility in soils, and provide a way to lessen the impact of biotic and abiotic stress.	Ganugi et al., 2019
Glomus mosseae Glomus etunicatum			Wheat		In native field soil about 3 spores per 100 g−1of air-dried soil has been added.	Mitigate the impacts of drought stress on wheat cultivated under field circumstances in semiarid regions. Also enhanced growth, yield, and nutrient uptake in wheat plants.	Al-Karaki et al., 2004
AMF			Wheat			AMF inoculation improves wheat yields compared to conventional systems, potentially reducing fertilizer inputs after field validation.	Sharma et al., 2011
AMF			Wheat				Berruti et al., 2018
AMF (Glomus intraradices)			Garlic Mustard			Foreign AM fungi and Alliariapetiolata can negatively impact local AM fungi, affecting their growth and reducing diversity in host roots.	Koch et al., 2011
AMF		Mustard				Improve plant heavy metal tolerance and accumulation through plant-microbe systems based on genotypes of plants and microsymbionts that are tolerant of Cd.	Belimov et al.,2020
AMF		Onion				A greater number of phylotypes were found in a few organic and conventional areas, including those connected to the genera Glomus, Archaeospora, and Paraglomus.	Galván et al., 2009
VAM (Gigaspora margarita, Glomus spp., Glomus fasciculatus Ger-. Demann, Glomus tenuis, F4, F11, FlO, NP9)		Onion				Mycorrhizal fungi significantly stimulated onion growth and P uptake in sterilised and unsterilised soils, with Glomus spp. being the most efficient inoculants in Patumahoe and Horotiu soils.	Powell et al., 1982
Glomus etunicatum (AMF)		Sweet sorghum			To cultivate mycorrhizal plants, 100 g of an air-dried inoculum of Claroideoglomusetunicatium BEG168 was added to each container that held 900 g of soil.	Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhances the overall growth of Sweet Sorghum cultivated in a molybdenum contaminated soil	Shi et al., 2020
VAM		Sorghum				Enhances production	Raju et al.,1990
AMF	Sorghum					Mycorrhizal colonization has a detrimental influence on Striga germination, attachment, and emergence.	Lendzemo et al., 2007
AMF G. mosseae G. intraradices	Mung bean					The mycorrhizal plants produced a larger seed output (161 g/m2), as well as higher levels of leaf phosphorus, leaf nitrogen, chlorophyll index, proline, total soluble carbohydrates content, relative water content, root length, root volume, root dry weight, and root/shoot weight ratio.	Habibzadeh et al., 2015
AMF	Mung bean					Interactions between mung bean, root-lesion nematode Pratylenchusthornei, beneficial symbionts arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and nitrogen-fixing Bradyrhizobium bacteria, enhance nutrition, growth, and seed yield.	Gough et al., 2021
AMF	Potatoes					Enhanced the potato production in soil with elevated phosphorus.	Douds et al., 2007
AMF	Soybean					AMF enhances the growth of soybean seeds.	Gabor et al., 1997