Effects of the basidiomycete on growth of Vaccinium sp.

†Different letters indicate significant differences (p‡Not analyzed.The effect of the isolates JPK 87 and JPK 90 on shoot length, dry shoot weight, total root length, and ericoid mycorrhizal colonization of Vaccinium myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea seedlings grown in a modified Melin Norkrans agar medium overlain with sterile peat soil. Prior to ANOVA data were log- (total shoot length and dry weight) or cubic-root- (total root length) transformed; untransformed means (n = 6) are shown with standard error of the mean in parentheses. V. myrtillus and V. vitis-idaea did not differ (p>0.05) for all growth parameters and were pooled for analysis. ANOVA numerator and denominator degrees of freedom were 2 and 15, respectively.