Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi benefit drought-stressed Salsola laricina

Due to its contribution to plant drought tolerance, arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) may play an important role in the revegetation of degraded pastures in semi-arid and arid regions. Salsola laricina, an important forage plant in Iran, belongs to predominantly non-mycotrophic Chenopodiaceae, but field observations suggest that it forms functional mycorrhizae. We therefore, established a greenhouse experiment to test the mycorrhizal response of this...