How are plant and fungal communities linked to each other in belowground ecosystems? A massively parallel pyrosequencing analysis of the association specificity of root-associated fungi and their host plants

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3112-3124

  Toju, Hirokazu ^a   Sato, Hirotoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a   Kadowaki, Kohmei ^a   Tanabe, Akifumi S ^a   Yazawa, Shigenobu ^a   Nishimura, Osamu ^a   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Common mycorrhizal network; Endophytes; Metagenomics; Mycorrhizae; Network theory; Plant communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886920742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.706     Document Type: Article

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