A single European aspen (Populus tremula) tree individual may potentially harbour dozens of Cenococcum geophilum ITS genotypes and hundreds of species of ectomycorrhizal fungi

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-320

  Bahram, Mohammad ^a   Põlme, Sergei ^a,b   Kõljalg, Urmas ^a   Tedersoo, Leho ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b University of Tartu Natural History Museum   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Community structure; Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis; Horizontal distribution; Spatial autocorrelation; Tree individual

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ESTIMATION METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOST PLANT; MAGNITUDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPEN; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOSPHERE; TREE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

ESTONIA;

CENOCOCCUM GEOPHILUM; FUNGI; POPULUS TREMULA;

EID: 78650795535     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01000.x     Document Type: Article

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