Quantifying the growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: Usefulness of the fractal dimension

Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-400

  Juge, Christine ^a,c   Champagne, Annie ^a   Coughlan, Andrew P ^a   Juge, Nicolas ^a   Parrott, Lael ^b   Piché, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Centre de Recherche et de Développement sur les Sols et les Grandes Cultures   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fine Branching (FB); Glomus diaphanum; Glomus intraradices; Grid Line intersect (GL); Hyphal growth; Runner Hyphae (RH)

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS DIAPHANUM; GLOMUS INTRARADICES;

EID: 68049135872     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-006     Document Type: Article

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