Soil moisture—a regulator of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community assembly and symbiotic phosphorus uptake

Mycorrhiza

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-75

  Deepika, Sharma ^a   Kothamasi, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Fungal community composition; Plant P uptake; Root AMF diversity; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT; FLOODING; FUNGUS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; SORGHUM;

DELHI; INDIA;

FUNGI; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS; RHIZOPHAGUS; SORGHUM BICOLOR;

PHOSPHORUS; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; INDIA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL; SORGHUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGI; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SORGHUM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84920106103     PISSN: 09406360     EISSN: 14321890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00572-014-0596-1     Document Type: Article

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