Mycorrhizal biotechnology has emerged as a major component of sustainable agriculture and allied activities. Innovations related to its role in agriculture, land reclamation, forestry, and landscaping are well recognized. This review presents the evolution of innovations worldwide related to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the past two decades, from 2000 to April 2020, and maintains that such innovations must continue in the future. An analysis of 696 patents showed that AMF have been used consistently as a biofertilizer and bioremediator over that period, although an upsurge was noted in propagation technologies, next-generation production methods, and formulation technologies. This review will familiarize mycorrhizologists with novel and evolving trends and will convince them of the importance of applying for patents to safeguard their innovations and the use of those innovations by industry.

菌根生物技术已经成为可持续农业和相关活动的重要组成部分。与它在农业，土地开垦，林业和美化环境中的作用有关的创新已广为人知。这篇综述介绍了从2000年到2020年4月的过去20年中，全球与丛枝菌根真菌（AMF）相关的创新的演变，并坚持认为这种创新必须在未来继续。对696项专利的分析表明，尽管在繁殖技术，下一代生产方法和配方技术方面出现了飞速增长，但AMF在那个时期一直被用作生物肥料和生物修复剂。