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. 2018 Mar 7;9:301. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00301

Table 1.

Substrate and plant parameters of non-mycorrhizal (NM) pots and pots inoculated with Rhizoglomus irregulare (AM) for the intra- and inter-genotypic plant combinations containing either two wild type tomato plants (WT/WT), two resistant mutants (RMC/RMC) or one WT and one resistant mutant (WT/RMC).

Variable Inoculation Pot combination
ANOVA
WT/WT WT/RMC RMC/RMC Pot Inoculation H × I
Substrate
Total dry porosity [cm3 cm-3] NM 0.56 ± 0.02 0.54 ± 0.01 0.56 ± 0.01 0.516 0.026 0.727
AM 0.53 ± 0.01 0.53 ± 0.01 0.53 ± 0.01
ΘSAT [cm3 cm-3] NM 0.50 ± 0.01 0.49 ± 0.01 0.50 ± 0.01 0.652 0.031 0.885
AM 0.47 ± 0.01 0.48 ± 0.01 0.49 ± 0.01
Air filled porosity [cm3 cm-3] NM 0.06 ± 0.02 0.05 ± 0.01 0.06 ± 0.01 0.784 0.698 0.906
AM 0.06 ± 0.02 0.05 ± 0.01 0.05 ± 0.01
KSAT [log10 cm d-1] NM 2.00 ± 0.06 2.01 ± 0.19 2.14 ± 0.19 0.414 0.856 0.443
AM 1.91 ± 0.09 2.23 ± 0.12 2.07 ± 0.08
BRSP [mg cm-3] NM 0.38 ± 0.08 0.42 ± 0.06 0.43 ± 0.05 0.771 0.258 0.204
AM 0.47 ± 0.09 0.46 ± 0.06 0.40 ± 0.04
Plant
Plant dry weight [g] NM 148 ± 3.94 149 ± 8.35 159 ± 6.13 0.913 0.822 0.455
AM 151 ± 10.4 154 ± 4.88 147 ± 8.09
Root dry weight [g] NM 37.5 ± 3.22 36.4 ± 4.41 45.9 ± 6.22 0.911 0.837 0.204
AM 40.1 ± 5.15 42.0 ± 4.38 35.5 ± 3.30
Shoot phosphorus [% DW] NM 0.28 ± 0.01 0.27 ± 0.02 0.26 ± 0.01 0.619 0.206 0.849
AM 0.25 ± 0.02 0.26 ± 0.01 0.25 ± 0.01

ΘSAT and KSAT denote the saturated water content and conductivity, respectively. Means (±SE) and significant P-values are highlighted in bold (two way ANOVA, α = 0.05, n = 4).