Isolated root caps, border cells, and mucilage from host roots stimulate hyphal branching of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus, Gigaspora gigantea

Mycological Research

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1079-1088

  Nagahashi, Gerald ^a   Douds Jr , David D ^a  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; EXUDATION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; ROOT COLONIZATION;

DAUCUS; DAUCUS CAROTA; FUNGI; GIGASPORA; GIGASPORA GIGANTEA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 5344232152     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756204000693     Document Type: Article

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