Ultrastructure of rapidly frozen and freeze-substituted germ tubes of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and localization of polyphosphate

New Phytologist

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 189-200

  Kuga, Yukari ^a   Saito, Katsuharu ^a   Nayuki, Keiichiro ^a   Peterson, R Larry ^b   Saito, Masanori ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus; Cryo TEM; Energy filtering transmission electron microscopy (EF TEM); Enzyme affinity immuno gold labelling; Gigaspora margarita; Polyphosphate (poly P); Tubular vacuole

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; DETECTION METHOD; FUNGUS; HOST PLANT; IRRADIATION; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GIGASPORA MARGARITA;

EID: 40349089705     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02345.x     Document Type: Article

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