Molecular defense response of mycorrhizal bean plants infected with Rhizoctonia solani

Annals of Microbiology

Table 3 Effect of infection with Rhizoctonia root-rot disease on the levels of mycorrhizal colonization in common bean

Treatment	Weeks after inoculation with R. solani	F (%)^a	M (%)^b	A (%)^c
CNM	1	0 d	0 e	0 e
CM	92.5 b	43.7 b	15.0 bc
PNM	0 d	0 e	0 e
PM	73.8 c	12.4 d	3.3 d
CNM	4	0 d	0 e	0 e
CM	100.0 a	71.5 a	59.3 a
PNM	0 d	0 e	0 e
PM	93.3 b	34.8 c	15.9 bc

Data are presented as the mean of three replicates. Values in each column followed by the same letter(s) are not significantly different according to Duncan’s multiple range test (p = 0.05)
^aF (%), Frequency of root colonization,
^bM (%), Intensity of cortical colonization
^cA (%), Frequency of arbuscules

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