title: Cultivation of high-biomass crops on coal mine spoil banks: can microbial inoculation compensate for high doses of organic matter?
abstract: Two greenhouse experiments were focused on the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in planting of high-biomass crops on reclaimed spoil banks. In the first experiment, we tested the effects of different organic amendments on growth of alfalfa and on the introduced microorganisms. While growth of plants was supported in substrate with compost amendment, mycorrhizal colonization was suppressed. Lignocellulose papermill waste had no negative effects on AMF, but did not positively affect growth of plants. The mixture of these two amendments was found to be optimal in both respects, plant growth and mycorrhizal development. Decreasing doses of this mixture amendment were used in the second experiment, where the effects of microbial inoculation (assumed to compensate for reduced doses of organic matter) on growth of two high-biomass crops, hemp and reed canarygrass, were studied. Plant growth response to microbial inoculation was either positive or negative, depending on the dose of the applied amendment and plant species.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídenská 1083, 14200 Prague, Czech Republic. gryndler@biomed.cas.cz
authors.forename: Milan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gryndler
authors.forename: Radka
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sudová
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Püschel
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rydlová
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Janousková
authors.forename: Miroslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vosátka
mesh_terms: D018533:Biomass; D003032:Coal Mining; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000382:microbiology; D038821:Mycorrhizae / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D012988:Soil Microbiology