Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi are common root inhabitants of non-Ericaceae plants in a south-eastern Australian sclerophyll forest

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-270

  Chambers, Susan M ^a   Curlevski, Nathalie J A ^a   Cairney, John W G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dark septate endophytes; Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi; Helotiales; ITS RFLP sequence analysis; Sclerophyll forest

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

DICOTYLEDON; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; MYCORRHIZA; POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOSPHERE;

APIALES; ASCOMYCETES; AUSTRALIA; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYPERACEAE; DROSERACEAE; ENDOPHYTE; EPIDERMIS CELL; ERICACEAE; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GNOTOBIOTICS; HAIR ROOT; INFECTION; LEGUME; MYCORRHIZA; MYRTACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEACEAE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ZYGOMYCETES;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ERICACEAE; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

APIACEAE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CUNONIACEAE; CYPERACEAE; DROSERACEAE; ERICACEAE; FABACEAE; FUNGI; HELOTIALES; LAXMANNIACEAE; MIMOSOIDEAE; MYRTACEAE; OIDIODENDRON; PITTOSPORACEAE; PROTEACEAE; STYLIDIACEAE; STYLIDIUM; WOOLLSIA PUNGENS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 47249098410     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00481.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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