Interazioni Collemboli-funghi terricoli: quale effetto sulla salute delle piante?

Collembola are mostly mycophagous animals living in the upper soil layers where they interact with propagules of plant pathogenic, antagonistic and mutualistic fungi, therefore their feeding activity can indirectly influence the plant health. In the present work interactions between the collembolan Protaphorura armata and i) the arbuscula mycorrhizal fungus glomus intraradices, ii) the antagonistic fungus Trichoderma harzianum against the disease caused by the pathogenic fungi Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici o Fusarium culmorum respectively on wheat plants were studied in microcosms under controlled conditions