Interaction between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant intraspecific competition

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and intraspecific competition are considered as the two main factors which affect plant populations structures and stabilities. By the intermediator of plants, the interaction between AM fungi and plant intraspecific competition has become one of the hotspots in ecology, which study on revealing plant growth, reproduction and the stability of plant population. On the basis of this, this study focus on the effects of AM fungi on individual plant in the same ages populations and the different ages populations, such as AM colonization, AM fungi spores density, and biomass of hostplant etc. Otherwise, the feedback of intraspecific competition on AM were also discussed.