Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on the accumulation of secondary metabolites in roots and reproductive organs of Solanum nigrum, Digitaria sanguinalis and Ipomoea purpurea

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Table 1 Analyses of variance (ANOVA) for secondary metabolites in different parts of weeds grown with three AMF

S.O.V	Df	Total phenolic compounds (mg g⁻¹ FW)						Total flavonoids content (mg g⁻¹ FW)
		S. n		D. s		I. p		S. n		D. s		I. p
		F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p	F	p
AMF	3	54.55	< 0.0001	141.98	< 0.0001	236.98	< 0.0001	129.59	< 0.0001	15.19	< 0.0001	132.55	< 0.0001
Plant organ	1	58.55	< 0.0001	13.52	0.0012	1810.7	< 0.0001	6097.78	< 0.0001	1394.39	< 0.0001	2372.8	< 0.0001
AMF*plant organ	3	15.05	< 0.0001	132.96	< 0.0001	133.37	< 0.0001	97.20	< 0.0001	16.80	< 0.0001	36.14	< 0.0001
Error	24	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Cv %		11.70		4.32		8.07		6.56		9.65		6.04