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. 2012 Jun 25;7(6):e39524. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039524

Table 2. Effects of the basidiomycete on growth of Vaccinium sp.

Total shoot length (mm) Dry shoot weight (mg) Total root length (mm) Ericoid mycorrhizal colonization (% cells)
JPK 87 39.3 (3.6) a 4.9 (0.2) a 79.3 (8.1) a 12.6 (4.7)
JPK 90 39.3 (5.8) a 4.8 (0.4) a 103.7 (23.2) a 22.1 (10.4)
Not inoculated 12.8 (1.2) b 1.2 (0.1) b 13.2 (4.7) b 0
ANOVA P<0.001 P<0.001 P<0.001

Different letters indicate significant differences (p<0.001, Tukey HSD).

Not analyzed.

The effect of the isolates JPK 87 and JPK 90 on shoot length, dry shoot weight, total root length, and ericoid mycorrhizal colonization of Vaccinium myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea seedlings grown in a modified Melin Norkrans agar medium overlain with sterile peat soil. Prior to ANOVA data were log- (total shoot length and dry weight) or cubic-root- (total root length) transformed; untransformed means (n = 6) are shown with standard error of the mean in parentheses. V. myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea did not differ (p>0.05) for all growth parameters and were pooled for analysis. ANOVA numerator and denominator degrees of freedom were 2 and 15, respectively.