Figure 1.

Mean dry aerial biomass production of Salix miyabeana SX67 inoculated with R. irregularis (AM), S. brunnea (EM), both fungi (XX), or non-inoculated (SX), illustrates that only the EM treatment significantly increased biomass. Measures were taken from five plants in each plot, at the end of the second growing season (October 2016) after drying at 60 degrees C. Column values were obtained by calculating the average of five samples per treatment in each of the five blocks, then obtaining the mean value across all blocks for each treatment. Error bars represent standard error. Treatments not sharing a letter are significantly different.