Assessment of VA mycorrhizal inoculum potential in relation to the establishment of cactus seedlings under mesquite nurse-trees in the Sonoran Desert

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 165-175

  Bashan, Yoav ^a   Davis, E Anne ^b   Carrillo Garcia, Angel ^a   Linderman, Robert G ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^b HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desert revegetation; Inoculum potential; Soil disturbance; Sonoran desert; VAM fungi; Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizae

Indexed keywords

LEMAIREOCEREUS THURBERI; LOPHOCEREUS SCHOTTII; MACHAEROCEREUS GUMMOSUS; MAMMILARIA; OPUNTIA CHOLLA; PACHYCEREUS PRINGLEI; PROSOPIS ARTICULATA;

EID: 0033934478     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0929-1393(00)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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