... required by the fungus [11, 35]. The lack of stimulation of seedlings growth by the fungi could alsobe influenced by nursery practices like the fertilisation levels, the type of substrate, or the container ... physiologicalstatus by enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumu-lation in the seedling tissues [3, 8]. Environmental conditions marked by ... the formation of mycorrhizas. The relatively high pH value (7.7) of the substratecould have reduced the efficacy of all fungi tested. Since most of them are acidophilous, both the germination...