Functional diversity of external hyphae of AM fungi: Ability to colonise new hosts is influenced by fungal species, distance and soil conditions

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 350-365

  Drew, E A ^a   Murray, R S ^a   Smith, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Pore size; Trifolium subterraneum

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEUM;

EID: 33646173477     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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