Absence of carbon transfer between Medicago truncatula plants linked by a mycorrhizal network, demonstrated in an experimental microcosm

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 350-360

  Voets, Liesbeth ^a   Goubau, Isaline ^a   Olsson, Pål Axel ^b   Merckx, Roel ^c   Declerck, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

13C; Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis; Autotrophic plants; Carbon transfer; In vitro; Lipid

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FATTY ACID;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; AUTOTROPHY; CARBON CYCLE; HERB; MICROCOSM; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; AUTOTROPHY; BARREL MEDIC; CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNGUS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MICROCOSM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 47249110728     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00503.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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