Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonisation of hieracium lepidulum roots in experimental and field soil inoculated media

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 843-850

  Downs, Theresa M ^a   Radford, Ian J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b WA Conservation and Land Management (CALM) Kununurra   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Hieracium lepidulum; Infection; Root associations

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; ROOT COLONIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ARUM; FUNGI; HIERACIUM LEPIDULUM;

EID: 30744436554     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2005.9512994     Document Type: Article

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