Management impacts on Mycorrhizal

fungal presence and diversity

in Solanum tuberosum

Ricardo A. Herrera-Peraza1†, E. Furrazola1, Y. Torres-Arias1, G. Bernal2,

C. S. Delavaux3,4, M. Llamuca5 , J. Hernández5, J. Duchicela5*

1Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, CITMA, La Habana 19, C.P. 11900. La

Habana, Cuba
2Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAP, Quito, Ecuador.
3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas,

2041 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Ave., Lawrence, KS 66045

4Kansas Biological Survey, 2101 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047
5* Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Politécnica del Ejército-

ESPE, Av. Gral. Rumiñahui s ⁄ n Sangolquí, Ecuador

Introduction

Solanum tuberosum Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Associate with potatoes

Nutritional symbiosis :
Widespread and nutrients traded for
economically important carbon
Adaptability, nutrient
content, cultivation and AMF are responsive to
productivity environmental changes
Understanding the
impact: agricultural
practices  nutrient
manipulations on field
Analyze field samples Use published data
• Ecuadorian Andean plots • Analyze DIVERSITY  NUTRIENT
• Mycorrhizal Function AVAILABILITY
• Mycorrhizal Diversity
 Methods
Mycorrhizal Function in the Mycorrhizal Diversity in the
Ecuadorian Andes Andes
Data published by Senés
Solanum tuberosum plots -Guerrero (2016) –
: Cañar, Cotopaxi and Solanum tuberosum roots
Carchi from: Perú, Ecuador and
Bolivia
Soil analysis, Environmental factors
Quantification of spores,  AMF richness and
Rootlets dry weight, diversity (OUT, genera
%MC, internal and and species level)
external mycelium
biomass

Assess the impacts

We constructed
of edaphic and Mycorrhizal Richness and
(generalized) linear
environmental functioning diversity
regression models
variables

*Senés-guerrero, C., & Schüßler, A. (2016). A conserved arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal core-species community colonizes potato roots in the Andes, 1, 317–333.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-015-0328-7
Results and discussion
p-value=0.032