Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6905, 2002, Pages 389-392

  Bidartondo, Martin I ^a   Redecker, Dirk ^b   Hijri, Isabelle ^b   Wiemken, Andres ^b   Bruns, Thomas D ^a   Domínguez, Laura ^c   Sérsic, Alicia ^c   Leake, Jonathan R ^d   Read, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FORESTRY; FUNGI; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

MYCO-HETEROTROPHS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARBON; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; MYCORRHIZA;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; EPIPARASITIC PLANT; MYCORRHIZA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARGENTINA; CARBON; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SYMBIOSIS;

ARACHNITIS; ARACHNITIS UNIFLORA; CORSIACEAE; EUDICOTYLEDONS; FUNGI; GENTIANACEAE; GLOMEROMYCOTA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VIRIDIPLANTAE; VOYRIA; VOYRIELLA;

EID: 0037179659     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01054     Document Type: Article

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