Abstract
The effect of different kinds of industrial dust on the mycorrhizal status of plants in Pino-Quercetum forest were studied on experimental plots in a mixed forest near Kraków (Poland). A marked decrease in mycorrhizal plant population was observed in all plots. The most resistant were non-mycorrhizal plants which in some cases even increased their density. On zinc and cadmium plots one of the most resistant plants was Vaccinium myrtillus with ericoid mycorrhiza. On other plots the population and the mycorrhizal infection of its roots was decreased. The application of industrial dusts caused a significant increase in the dead conifer fine root and a decrease in the mycorrhizal root biomass.
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