Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plant Asteroxylon mackiei from the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK)

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 201-213

  Strullu Derrien, Christine ^a,b   Wawrzyniak, Zuzanna ^a,c   Goral, Tomasz ^a   Kenrick, Paul ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chytrids; Devonian; Palaeozoosporites renaultii; Parasite; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MYCORRHIZA; NEW SPECIES; ROOT COLONIZATION; ROOT SYSTEM; TAXONOMY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VASCULAR PLANT; WETLAND;

ABERDEENSHIRE; RHYNIE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASTEROXYLON; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84938744087     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12307     Document Type: Article

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