Table 2.
AM fungi | P | Aphids | AM fungi×P | P×aphids | AM fungi×aphids | AM fungi×P×aphids | |||||||||||
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F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | F | P | ||||
Total leaf P concentration | ↑ | 16.5 | 0.000 | ↑ | 4.2 | 0.046 | ↓ | 18.5 | 0.000 | 0.0 | 0.894 | 0.1 | 0.741 | 0.0 | 0.926 | 0.7 | 0.401 |
Total leaf N concentration | ↑ | 15.2 | 0.000 | 0.05 | 0.828 | ↓ | 7.5 | 0.009 | 1.9 | 0.171 | 2.2 | 0.143 | 0.4 | 0.514 | 0.5 | 0.488 | |
N: P ratio | ↓ | 4.2 | 0.044 | ↓ | 14.2 | 0.000 | ↑ | 19.1 | 0.000 | 0.5 | 0.477 | 0.4 | 0.557 | 3.3 | 0.077 | 0.6 | 0.461 |
Plant shoot mass | ↑ | 7.9 | 0.007 | 0.07 | 0.797 | ↓ | 7.7 | 0.008 | 2.1 | 0.155 | 1.8 | 0.186 | 0.1 | 0.757 | 0.4 | 0.551 | |
Plant root mass | 1.7 | 0.194 | 2.5 | 0.124 | 1.1 | 0.295 | 0.3 | 0.615 | 0.0 | 0.879 | 0.3 | 0.603 | 0.9 | 0.362 | |||
Soil PO4 concentration | 3.6 | 0.063 | ↑ | 10.5 | 0.002 | 0.4 | 0.512 | 0.9 | 0.357 | 0.8 | 0.369 | 0.1 | 0.782 | 0.5 | 0.506 | ||
Attractiveness of plants to aphids | ↑ | 4.7 | 0.042 | 0.0 | 0.979 | NA | NA | 1.2 | 0.295 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
AM fungal colonization | NA | NA | ↓ | 7.5 | 0.013 | 3.9 | 0.063 | NA | NA | 4.6 | 0.045 | NA | NA | NA | NA | ||
Aphid biomass | 0.1 | 0.732 | 1.9 | 0.187 | NA | NA | 0.8 | 0.382 | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |