AMF Ecology Lab Sri Aurobindo College · University of Delhi
Open Resources

Flagship resources

Three tools built for researchers, students, and field practitioners working with AMF diversity in India and beyond.

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iAMF Database

Curated database of AMF biodiversity, taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny — India's first GPS-linked repository.










Explore database
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AMF Tutorial

The lab developed a comprehensive QIIME 2-based tutorial for AMF metabarcoding analysis in collaboration with the Caporaso Lab (Northern Arizona University). The tutorial, featured in the International Mycorrhiza Society Newsletter (November 2025), provides standardized pipelines for 18S rRNA processing, taxonomic assignment using the MaarjAM database, and downstream ecological analyses, and has been widely adopted for reproducible AMF diversity studies.



Read the tutorial
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Spun Grant

The lab is currently leading a SPUN-funded Underground Explorers Program project (2026–2027) titled “Climate and Land-Use Drivers of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity in the Undersampled Indo-Gangetic Plains Agroecosystem.” This work generates the first systematic AMF baseline across irrigation and salinity gradients in Haryana, trains local students and farmers, and contributes open data to global mycorrhizal mapping initiatives. This research was supported with an Underground Explorers grant from the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN).

View the SPUN Grant
Coverage

Records across 23 states

The iAMF database documents 161 arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species across 23 states of India (Gupta et al., 2017). Data were curated from primary surveys in eight states (2015–2018) and 99 secondary studies (2008–2018), with GPS locations, taxonomy, and molecular sequences.

  • Densest coverage Peninsular India (strong baseline records)
  • Active frontier Haryana — Sonipat district transect (SPUN UEP 2026)
  • MethodGPS-linked records, morphology + 18S rDNA metabarcoding, phylogenetic curation (Gupta et al., 2017)
iAMF · Distribution Map Map of India shaded by AMF species records per state