Abstract
Despite the importance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) within forest and agroecosystems, few data are available about how AMF communities are structured in the root zone of the argan tree. Some studies have characterized endomycorrhizal fungi population occurring in rhizosphere soils of argan trees grown in southwest of Morocco, numerous sites in this area harbored unexplored communities. The endomycorrhizae diversity of rhizosphere soils collected from 15 argan forest stands located in Lakhssas, Smimou, Ait Baha, Tamanar, Essaouira, Taroudant (Elkodya), Irherm, Guelmim, Imsouane, Anzi, Tiznit, Taghazoute, Ait Melloul, Bouizakarne, and Oulad Teima have revealed the presence of different AMF communities sharing some species but dissimilar AMF community compositions are noted according to sampling time and site. Additionally, the diverse AMF structures detected such as vesicles, arbuscules and hyphae reflect implicitly the germination of AMF propagules in the rhizospheric area of the Argan tree. The pre-evaluation of AMF in the soil through spores’ density can indicate AMF community dynamics, signaling either the adaptability of mycorrhizal symbionts to the local conditions or its decline. In total, 39 morphotypes of endomycorrhizal fungal spores were identified and described, representing seven genera: Glomus (15 species), Scutellospora (3 species), Entrophospora (4 species), Pacispora (2 species), Gigaspora (4 species), Acaulospora (10 species), and Ambispora (1 species). The genus Glomus has a wide occurrence and had the largest number of species. This chapter gives a great overview of the mycorrhizal status of argan trees in their natural habitats of the main Moroccan argan forests.
Keywords
- Morocco
- Argania spinosa
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- diversity
1. Introduction
In their natural environment, plants are part of a rich ecosystem, including numerous and diverse microorganisms in the soil and the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which represent the main component of the soil microbiota in most agroecosystems. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate biotrophs and rely on their autotrophic host to complete their life cycle and produce the next generation of spores [1]. These symbionts colonize the roots of the vast majority of plants, either the roots of 86% of terrestrial plants [2] and most crop plants [3]. By forming an extended, intricate hyphal network, AMF can efficiently absorb mineral nutrients from the soil and deliver them to their host plants in exchange for carbohydrates. They play an important role in soil fertility, the acquisition of mineral nutrients, especially immobile nutrients, such as phosphorus [4, 5]. AMF can also enhance tolerance or resistance to root pathogens [6] or abiotic stresses, such as metal toxicity [7]. Yet another benefit conferred by the mycorrhizal fungi is plant growth increase under water deficit conditions. It does so by aiding drought avoidance, enhancing mineral nutrition, improvement in soil physicochemical and biological properties [8].
AMF protects the plant health against other environmental stresses [9, 10] and improves the soil structure by the formation of stable soil aggregates, building up a macroporous structure of soil that allows penetration of water and air and prevents erosion, which results in promoting root system development [11].
Due to all of these advantageous attributes of AMF related to the extended absorptive root surface and the available soil volume by hyphae mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi, some ecological scientists have advocated their use in the regeneration of tropical forests and the restoration of degraded soil in arid and semi-arid areas. In Morocco, there are many representative areas where potential resources are affected by the grazing pressure, arid climate, and anthropogenic activities, such as the northwest palm grove [12, 13], Thuya [14], and argan forest [15]. Of these latter, the argan-ecosystem, suffers from an increase in the deterioration of its various components and needs rehabilitation and reforestation programs to restore a sustainable natural environment.
The use of AMF is one of the natural processes that gains an increasing interest. Its success depends on the knowledge of the diversity and richness of AMF as probable indicators of adaptation in certain environments and the setting of symbiosis with plants [16]. In this context, the study of the diversity of AMF in argan tree rhizosphere through the isolation, identification, and quantification of the number of spores constitute the key step to the characterization of the native AMF associated with this plant species before using as inoculants with a better chance of adapting to particular soil, climate conditions [17].
Several works have shown that the argan tree benefits from a symbiotic association established between the roots of the plant with mycorrhizal fungi [18, 19, 20, 21]. Indeed, in semi-arid and arid seeded areas, soils are deficient in nutrients and subject to long periods of drought, hence the need for such root symbiosis [22]. Describing the diversity of the community of AMF at numerous sites from the same area can be useful tool awarding eventual changes that can occur in the course of years before undertaking preservation strategies of this endemic tree, such as incorporating AMF-based biotechnology to cope with stressful conditions that threaten both the perennity and production of this agroforestry system.
2. Argan stands in southwestern Morocco
Argan tree forest covers an area of 3,976,000 ha, spanning from the city of Safi in northeastern Morocco to the Saharan fringe in the south, where the argan tree occupies about 70% of the woodland area [23]. The most important stands extend mainly from the Northeast of Essaouira to the valley of Souss (Figure 1).
This locality constitutes the central area of the argan grove and this is because of the state of development and the exceptional vigor that this species presents as shown in 15 sites covering areas of Lakhssas, Smimou, Ait Baha, Tamanar, Essaouira, Taroudant, Irherm, Guelmim, Imsouane, Anzi, Tiznit, Taghazoute, Ait Melloul, Bouizakrane, and Oulad Teima (Figures 2 and 3).
3. Physicochemical properties of soil—AMF community
Soil properties are critical in determining the fertility of soils, and some parameters can define the composition and species richness of AMF communities. Hazard
4. AMF community composition associated with Argan trees
The AM fungi are the important rhizospheric microorganisms whose diversity can be decisive for both plant community structure and ecosystem productivity. Studies on AMF occurrence and distribution have been made by spore extraction from soil and identification based on the morphology of the spores. Thus, the identification of spores has also been widely used to characterize AMF communities in soil [26, 37, 38].
4.1 Root colonization with AM fungi
The root colonization by AM fungi relies on the presence of microscopic structures, such as external and internal hyphae, vesicles and arbuscules, as well as endophytes (Figure 4).
4.2 AMF spore density
According to Morton
Oliveira and Oliveira [42] have revealed significant variations in spore density between the soil samples collected in August (dry season) obviously lower than in the sampling performed during the rainy season. Likewise, Khaekhum
The variation of spore density of AMF is directly related to the plant growth stage [50]. Various medicinal plants have displayed the highest intensity of AMF colonization and spore population in the flowering stage [51]. Hatimi and Tahrouch [52] have demonstrated that mycorrhization is nutrient level-dependent, and the spore production of AMF tends to be significant at the flowering stage and then decreased at the end of the growing season when the physiological cycle of plant roots changed. Indeed, disturbance of semi-arid ecosystems decreased mycorrhizal spore density and nutrient availability.
4.3 AMF Community and species richness
As all natural plant communities, the argan tree contains arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at rhizospheric soil level. The total number of AMF morphotypes was 35 in 2016 [53] and 39 in 2021 [41] illustrated in Figure 6.
The specific richness of this assembly of community attains 18, 14, and 9 species in some sites (Figure 7). Almost the same number of AMF spore morphotypes (31) was found in the rhizosphere of
Regarding the dominance of genera
5. Conclusion
Mycorrhizal fungi play a complex role in ecosystem function, so knowledge of their distributional patterns is important, especially in view of the current environmental threats to AMF diversity and plant productivity under climate changes. The present study provides useful information about the composition of the AMF community associated with
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