Open AccessThe Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Black Cumin Rhizosphere (Nigella sativa L.) in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
Author(s) -
Faisal Al Asad,
Ani Kurniawati,
Setia Budi,
Didah Nur Faridah
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of tropical crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2356-0169
pISSN - 2356-0177
DOI - 10.29244/jtcs.5.3.126-131
Subject(s) - acaulospora , rhizosphere , glomus , biology , nigella sativa , spore , fungus , glomeromycota , botany , arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi , genus , java , symbiosis , arbuscular mycorrhizal , horticulture , traditional medicine , medicine , genetics , bacteria , inoculation , computer science , programming language
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) is a type of fungus that can form a symbiotic mutualism with most plants. Some AMF can only be symbiotic with a certain plant species. This research aims to determine and obtain the genus AMF from black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) accessions from America, Turkey, Hong Kong, Slovenia, India, and Kuwait accessions which had been grown in West Java, Indonesia. Three samples from each accession, four replications each, were collected for examination. The results showed that six generas of AMF were found in the rhizosphere of black cumin: Glomus, Gigaspora, Acaulospora, Scutellospora, Dentiscutata, and Entrophospora. The genus Glomus was predominantly found in the Indian accession, i.e. 96.42 spores.Keywords: black cumin, diversity, fungi, exploration, AMF