Fungal endophytes in a 400-million-yr-old land plant: Infection pathways, spatial distribution, and host responses

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 648-657

  Krings, Michael ^a,b   Taylor, Thomas N ^b   Hass, Hagen ^c   Kerp, Hans ^c   Dotzler, Nora ^a   Hermsen, Elizabeth J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endomycorrhiza; Interaction; Nothia aphylla; Parasitism; Pragian earliest Emsian (Early Devonian); Rhynie chert

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; ENDOPHYTE; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; HERB; HOST PLANT; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITISM; PETROGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; FUNGI; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; NOTHIA APHYLLA; PRAGIA;

EID: 34247330637     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02008.x     Document Type: Article

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