Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Growth of Wheat Plant

Mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus. The current study was conducted to assess the effect of inoculation with Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) on the growth of seeds of the wheat plant. Triticum aestivum, which is one of the plants that host the fungus, was studied by calculating the wet weight and dry weight of both the root system and the shoot system. In this experiment, roots colonized with AMF were used as a source of injection. Wheat seeds were injected with these roots and compared with other seeds without control injection. The injected plants and uninfected plants were allowed to grow for a period of 75 days. During this period, the plants were harvested over three periods 25, 50, and 75 days. Through this experiment, it was found that AMF have a high efficacy on the growth of the wheat crop, through a positive effect on the growth of the seeds of this host plant. Such studies on AMF are still rare in Libya, so we tried to follow up the previous studies, so we studied this kind of coexistence with this economically important agricultural crop in Libya and the world.