Effects of plant protection chemicals on vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas

The effects of eight plant protection chemicals on the development of vesiculararbuscular mycorrhizas were influenced by the identity of the host plant and fungal endophyte, the soil type, and the composition and concentration of the biocide. These effects ranged from stimulatory (as with the fungicide chloroneb, applied to inocula of Glomus microcarpus used with pot‐grown lettuce), through negligible (aldicarb on G. mosseae in pot‐grown onions and field grown barley with indigenous mycorrhizal fungi) to short‐term inhibition (drazoxolon on G. mosseae in onion) and longer term inhibition (the fungicides benomyl and triadimefon on G. mosseae in onion).