Rhynie chert: A window into a lost world of complex plant-fungus interactions: Commentary

New Phytologist

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 475-479

  Berbee, Mary L ^a   Taylor, John W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Devonian fungi; Fossil fungi; Fungal ecology; Fungal evolution; Molecular clock; Mycorrhizas; Plant pathogens; Plant microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOME;

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

FUNGI;

EID: 34247358225     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02080.x     Document Type: Note

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