Life histories of symbiotic rhizobia and mycorrhizal fungi

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Denison, R Ford ^a   Kiers, E Toby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANTS; RHIZOBIACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 80053298333     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.018     Document Type: Review

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