Figure 9

Confirmation of the results for adult plants, grown in sterile vermiculite. After exposure of the seedlings to the 5 treatments in Petri dishes for 10 days (cf. legend to Figure 2A), they were transferred to Magenta boxes with sterile vermiculite for 14 days. (A) Number of survived plants. (B) Fresh weight of plants. (C) Fungal DNA content in roots and shoots. The data are based on 3 independent experiments with 16 seedlings each. Bars represent SDs. Asterisks indicate significant differences to Vd, as determined by Student's t-test (* P ≤ 0.05; ** P ≤ 0.01; *** P ≤ 0.001).