02149naa a2200325 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000150006024500890007526000090016452013560017365000180152965000110154765000150155865000160157365000100158965000140159965000160161365000100162965000160163965000140165565000090166965000130167870000130169170000170170470000160172170000150173770000160175277300550176816211151999-10-22       1999    bl ---       0--  u    #d1 aMULLER, J.  aPool size of fructans in roots and leaves of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal barley.  c1999  aThe effect of arbuscular mycorrhizas on fructan accumulation was studied in barley (Hordeum vulgare) infected with Glomus mosseae. Treatments with and without fertilizer were included in order to distinguish between mere fertilizer effects and the effects of the symbiosis, and plants were harvested at two different time points, 35 and 50 d after planting. Fructan was the major storage carbohydrate in both leaves and roots. The amounts of fructan were markedly altered in the mycorrhizal plants. In roots of non-fertilized mycorrhizal plants, fructan pools were significantly greater than in the corresponding non-mycorrhizal plants. By contrast, fertilization caused a general decrease in amounts of fructan in roots. The increase of fructan in mycorrhizal roots was correlated with a decrease of invertase activity. In leaves, fructan pools decreased or remained unchanged upon mycorrhizal infection; fertilization had a similar effect. However, when individual leaves of a plant were compared, intriguing effects of the mycorrhizal symbiosis could be observed. Whereas in non-mycorrhizal plants, the youngest leaves had the highest fructan contents and the oldest leaves the lowest (as previously reported), this gardient was markedly altered in mycorrhizal plants, indicating systemic effects of mycorrhiza on assimilate partitioning in shoots.  acarbohydrates  aleaves  ametabolism  amycorrhizae  aroots  asymbiosis  aCarboidrato  aFolha  aMetabolismo  aMicorriza  aRaiz  aSimbiose1 aMOHR, U.1 aSPRENGER, N.1 aBORTLIK, K.1 aBOLLER, T.1 aWIEMKEN, A.  tNew Phytologist, Oxfordgv. 142, p. 551-559, 1999.