Seasonal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in roots in a seminatural grassland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 5613-5623

  Santos González, Juan C ^a,b   Finlay, Roger D ^b   Tehler, Anders ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; DNA SEQUENCES; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; RNA;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL COMMUNITIES; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; ROOTS; SEASONAL DYNAMICS;

FUNGI;

FUNGUS; GENE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RNA; ROOT SYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ACAULOSPORA; ANTENNARIA DIOICA; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASTERACEAE; AUTUMN; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOMUS; GRASSLAND; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRODUCTIVITY; PRUNELLA; PRUNELLA VULGARIS; RNA GENE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SWEDEN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASTERACEAE; DNA, FUNGAL; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PRUNELLA; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACAULOSPORA; ANTENNARIA DIOICA; ARBUSCULAR; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GLOMUS; PRUNELLA VULGARIS;

EID: 34548495305     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00262-07     Document Type: Article

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