Influence of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on The Growth of Green Gram (Vigna radiata L.) Grown Under Water Stress Conditions

The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) is well known to increasing the shoot length of plant species by transfering the insoluble soil nutrients. Relative Water Content (RWC) was higher in all mycorrhizal infected plants than non-mycorrhizal plants (22%). Under water stress condition WAM1 (37%), WAM2 (41%), WAM3 (44%) and WAM4 (28%) recorded maximum level of RWC. The total soluble sugars in the leaves of all Green gram plant showed a decrease in mycorrhizal seedlings than water stressed mycorrhizal seedlings. The starch content was higher in seedling inoculated with mycorrhizal crops when compared to water stressed mycorrhizal crops. The effect of AM inoculation in the protein content showed a greater increase in mycorrhizal plants than in control seedlings and water stressed plants. At the same time, proline content had recorded very low values in AM inoculated seedlings. SDS PAGE study revealed that, there was a prominent protein expression pattern in AM infected soil samples compared to non-infected soil samples. In AAS analysis, the soil inoculated with AM fungi produced high level of calcium, ferrous and potassium content while compared to non AM inoculated soil sample.