VAM - Vesicular Arbuscular Endomycorrhiza

Mycorrhizae is the symbiotic association between plant roots and soil fungus. Of the 7 types of mycorrhizae, VAM plays a great role in inducing plant growth. VAM are symbiotic entophytic soil fungi, which colonize the roots of approximately 80 plants. VAM fungi produce hyphae, which are microscopic tubes that colonize crop roots and grow out into the soil further than root hairs. Nutrients are taken up by the hyphae and carried back to the plant. This results into very efficient mobilization & uptake of fertilizers and other nutrients by plants. The VAM hyphae also helps is retaining moisture around the root zone of plants. VAM increase the resistance to root borne or soil borne pathogens and Nematodes. Enhanced colonization of introduced population of beneficial soil organisms like Azotobacter, Azospirillum, Rhizobium and Phosphate solubilizing bacteria around mycorrhizal roots thereby exerting synergistic effects on plant growth.