Ecto- or arbuscular mycorrhizas ± which are best?

D. J. Lodge

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Ecto- or arbuscular mycorrhizas ± which are best?

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Authors:

D. J. Lodge

Year:

2000

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

FORUM New Phytol. 146, :353±354

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Abstract

Few topics in ecology are as intriguing or bedeviling as comparative studies of different types of mycorrhizas formed in the same plant species. Attempts to determine the relative bene®ts from each fungal type to the host plant are fraught with difficulties (Jones et al., 1998), and for this reason plants that form tripartite associations with arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi make ideal experimental systems. Just such a tripartite system is explored in a report in this issue by Chen et al. (pp. 545±556)

Citation

Lodge, D. J. 2000. Ecto- or arbuscular mycorrhizas ± which are best?. FORUM New Phytol. 146, :353±354