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8/17/2019 Dan Groundwork
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What is Mycorrhiza?
• Symbiosis between fungi and plant
roots• Naturally-occurring "good" fungi,assist 9! of plant species
• #tend root system, increase rootsurface area
• $estroyed by modern agriculturalmethods
• %eintroduction helps plants absorb soilnutrients
• &ommercial inoculants only beginning
to emerge, due to challenge of mass
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Mycorrhiza*s +road Scope of +enets
) .ertility / yield and
0uality impro1ements
( Sa1ings / fertilizer andwater re0uirementreductions
2 +io-&ontrol /protection against soil-borne pathogens
3 %esilience / plantdurability under stress
4 n1ironment / directimpact on 1e out of
eight measureableplanetary boundaries
Non-mycorrhizalplants absorb )4!of phosphorousfertilizers, lea1ing54! for run-o6
Mycorrhabsorb phosphfertilizere0uireprescrip
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7roundwor8 in merging Mar8ets
• .ield trials currently
underway inhilippines, :gandaand ;ur8ey
• <mpact greater whenconditions are worse
• rice point applicablefor smallholderfarmers
• %esilience understress =drought,
salinity,
7roundwor8 eld trial in :gand
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Why 7roundwor8?
• ow-price, highly-
concentrated,aggressi1e inoculantapplicable formainstreamagriculture
• rice point suitable for
most crops, e1enbroad-acre
• @1er two decades of%A$ at leading <sraeliresearch center
• :ni0uely aggressi1e
strains isolated from