Regulation of resource exchange in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Walder, Florian ^a   Van Der Heijden, Marcel G A ^a,b,c  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84946208601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.159     Document Type: Review

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