Investigating the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from gymnema sylvestre and curcuma longa in Vietnam

In recent decade, with advances in molecular techniques, studies in AMF have turned to directly identification from soil samples by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods (Husband et al., 2002). In the present investigation, the diversity of AMF on medicinal plants G. sylvestre and C. longa in Vietnam was studied using PCR based method for specific AM fungal ribosomal RNA (rDNA) sequences. This paper use molecular approaches to determine and assess the distribution of AM fungi among different medicinal plant hosts.