Table 8. AMF inoculation on tuber weights and secondary metabolite content in yam tubers.
The comparability between of tuber weight and flavonoid, anthocyanin increase rate of the two species of purple flesh yams by inoculated with six AMF species.
| AMF species | Zihyuxieshu | Tainung 5 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuber increased rate (%) | Flesh flavonoids increased rate (%) | Peels flavonoids increased rate (%) | Flesh anthocyanin increased rate (%) | Peels anthocyanin increased rate (%) | Tuber increased rate (%) | Flesh flavonoids increased rate (%) | Peels flavonoids increased rate (%) | Flesh anthocyanin increased rate (%) | Peels anthocyanin increased rate (%) | |
| Gc | 59.4 | 0.5 | 9.1 | 3.6 | 8.2 | 59.7 | 10.4 | −13.0 | 5.4 | 1.7 |
| Ge | 56.5 | 22.1 | −0.8 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 40.1 | 8.8 | 4.5 | 8.1 | 4.4 |
| Gf | 33.3 | 0.7 | −12.1 | 15.7 | 3.4 | 13.9 | 21.4 | 9.6 | 21.6 | 9.4 |
| Gg | 73.5 | 0.8 | −1.8 | 30.1 | 4.3 | 36.4 | 29.8 | 0.8 | 105.4 | 34.4 |
| Gm | 5.9 | 31.4 | 11.9 | 4.8 | 6.0 | 28.3 | 0.8 | 14.4 | 10.8 | 15.6 |
| Asp | −1.4 | −0.7 | −7.5 | 16.9 | 17.2 | 7.1 | 18.6 | 6.2 | 86.5 | 32.2 |
Notes.
AMF species
- Gc
- Glomus clarum
- Ge
- G. etunicatum
- Gf
- G. fasciculatum
- Gg
- Gigaspora sp.
- Gm
- G. mosseae
- Asp
- Acaulospora sp