3.2. P. lanceolata
In non-mine soil, fungal communities from the mine (FM) promoted
a 36% increase in total biomass over the non-mine fungi (FN),
and a 122% increase over uninoculated plants (Fig. 7 and Table 2,
p-value = 0.06). In mine soil, plant biomass production with either
fungal ecotype was approximately equal. Uninoculated plants in
non-mine soil produced an average biomass of 4.5 g. In mine soil,
their average biomass was 0.18 g.
Plants from the mine (PM) had a root–shoot ratio 11% higher
than the non-mine (PN) ecotype (Fig. 5 and Table 2, p-value = 0.05).
In mine soil, uninoculated P. lanceolata more than doubled its