Kissing cousins: Mycorrhizal fungi get together

New Phytologist

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 751-753

  Young, J Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Genetic exchange; Glomus intraradices; Heterokaryon

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

CYTOPLASM; GENOME, FUNGAL; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANTS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS INTRARADICES;

EID: 59849121678     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02765.x     Document Type: Note

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