Fungal fidelity in the myco-heterotroph-to-autotroph life cycle of Lycopodiaceae: A case of parental nurture?

New Phytologist

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 572-576

  Leake, Jonathan R ^a   Cameron, Duncan D ^a   Beerling, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Convergent evolution; Fungal specificity; Gametophyte; Inter plant carbon transfer; Orchid

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HUPERZIA; LYCOPODIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EVOLUTION; HUPERZIA; LYCOPODIUM; MYCORRHIZAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; LYCOPODIACEAE; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 38149070937     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02352.x     Document Type: Note

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