Ectomycorrhizal communities in a productive Tuber aestivum Vittad. orchard: Composition, host influence and species replacement

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 170-184

  Benucci, Gian Maria Niccolò ^a   Raggi, Lorenzo ^a   Albertini, Emidio ^a   Grebenc, Tine ^b   Bencivenga, Mattia ^a   Falcinelli, Mario ^a   Di Massimo, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Hazel; Hornbeam; Host preference; ITS sequencing; Tuber aestivum; Tuber orchard

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ABUNDANCE; DICOTYLEDON; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; HAZE; HOST PREFERENCE; ORCHARD; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BETULACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FRUITING BODY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAZELNUT; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; SYMBIOSIS; TREE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BETULACEAE; CORYLUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

CARPINUS; CORYLUS AMERICANA; THELEPHORACEAE; TRICHOLOMA SCALPTURATUM; TUBER (TRUFFLE); TUBER AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952342183     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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