01446naa a2200253 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902200140006010000180007424500740009226000090016652007530017565000150092865000280094365000110097165300260098265300200100865300140102865300110104270000240105370000230107770000220110077300700112213547261998-09-09       1996    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a0100-06831 aARAUJO, A. P.  aGrowth analysis of tomato colonized with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi  c1996  aThe evaluation of the benefits produced by onoculation of plants with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus(AMF) should consider the effect of host ontogeny, which causes changes in symbiosis due to changing source-sink relationships.In a greenhouse experiment, conducted at Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Agrobiologia-EMBRAPA, Seropedica, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1991, the growth rates and the phosphorus(P) accumulation and utilization rates of tomato plants(Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) were estimated using functional growth analysis. The treatments consisted of two levels of added P(60 and 120mg P kg soil, respectively,P1 and P2, either inoculated or not with the AMF Glomus etunicatum Becker & Gerdemann, and nine weekly harvests.  aphosphorus  aLycopersicon Esculentum  aTomate  aArbuscular mycorrhiza  aGrowth analysis  aRoot area  aTomato1 aROSSIELLO, R. O. P.1 aSILVA, E. M. R. da1 aALMEIDA, D. L. de  tRevista Brasileira de Ciencia do Sologv.20, n.2, p.233-240,1996.