Review of Application and Importance of Ectomycorrhiza Fungi and their Role in the Stability of Ecosystems

Dorna Satar Boroujeni¹, Behsan Hemmatinezhad^2*

¹Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156-83111, Isfahan, Iran ²Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, P. O. Box:166, Iran.

ABSTRACT: Ectomycorrhiza is a kind of fungus-plant symbiotic that plays an important role in the performance, maintenance, improvement of the situation after the destruction, biodiversity evolution, stability and better and more efficiency from ecosystems. Ectomycorrhiza can be considered as an integral component of the biology and ecology of soil that has a significant impact on the growth and absorption of nutrients and protection against diseases. Given that today’s concern of humanity is loss, damage or diminish of important economical species in the environment, ectomycorrhizal identifying is considered as an essential understanding of research in tropical and non-tropical forests. This paper is an overview of the diversity and performance knowledge of ectomycorrhiza and its impact on plant diversity, composition, restoration, dynamism and amount of biomass in the ecosystem. This paper also discussed about ectomycorrhizal effects and tolerance of these fungi in hard environmental conditions and their reflection in this situation such as nutrient deficiency, stress, drought, salinity and ultramafic soils and the effects of these fungi in the stability of ecosystems and climatic diversity of these fungi. This paper shows that ectomycorrhiza fungus is an integral part of plant physiology and also, plays a key role in plant adaptation to specific environmental conditions, but whether the ectomycorrhiza can be a promising tool for biological relationship between soil and plants and a natural and useful program to restore damaged nature?

KEYWORDS: Soil biology; mycorrhiza; environmental stresses; ultramafic

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