The In Vitro Mass-Produced Model Mycorrhizal Fungus, Rhizophagus irregularis, Significantly Increases Yields of the Globally Important Food Security Crop Cassava

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ceballos, Isabel ^a   Ruiz, Michael ^a   Fernández, Cristhian ^b   Peña, Ricardo ^b   Rodríguez, Alia ^a   Sanders, Ian R ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SALLE   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CASSAVA; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD SECURITY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS; GENETIC MANIPULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; RHIZOPHAGUS IRREGULARIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; COLOMBIA; FERTILIZERS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MANIHOT; MYCORRHIZAE; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84881319052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070633     Document Type: Article

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