ISHS Acta Horticulturae 496: International Symposium on Urban Tree Health
MYCORRHIZAL MANAGEMENT IN URBAN FORESTRY |
| Author: | Donald H. Marx |
| Keywords: | mycorrhizae, bacteria, forest soil processes, commercial inoculants |
| Abstract:
Urban trees, forest trees once-removed, have the same biological needs as forest trees. Many attributes of forest soils and tree roots are suppressed in the adverse soil conditions found in many man-made landscapes. One requirement that must be addressed in these landscapes is the microbial root partnerships that evolved with trees in their former forest environment. Commercially available mycorrhizal fungal and soil/root bacterial inoculants are effective in improving development of lateral roots, fine absorbing roots and mycorrhizae on transplanted trees and on the dysfunctional root systems of established trees growing in urban, nonforest-like, man-made landscapes. | |
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