Mycorrhizal fungi in soils cultivated with cocoa in Atlantic Rain Forest, Bahia, Brazil. In: Agrotrópica v. 19 p. 69-72, 2007.

Abstract

The mycorrhizal fungi can be, and in many cases are, fundamental for the efficient nutrition process and appropriate development and production for most of the plants. Because the new scientific focuses based on agro environmental processes and, specially, for areas with deficient socioeconomic conditions and poor soils, biological alternatives of agricultural management based on mycorrhiza utilization for example, can be recommended. This preliminary study aimed at to identify the main mycorrhiza species associated with two main soils cultivated with cocoa, in the south of Bahia, Brazil. A larger diversity of genus / species in the Ultisol (Argissolo), and a prevalence of the genus Acaulospora in the Oxisol (Latossolo) was verified.