High-throughput sequencing shows high fungal diversity and community segregation in the rhizospheres of container-grown conifer seedlings

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Menkis, Audrius ^a   Burokiene, Daiva ^b   Stenlid, Jan ^a   Stenström, Elna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Forest nursery; Mycorrhiza; Pathogens; Seedlings; Sequencing; Tree health

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PATHOGENS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOILS;

FOREST NURSERY; MYCORRHIZA; SEEDLINGS; SEQUENCING; TREE HEALTH;

FUNGI;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DNA; FUNGUS; NICHE; NURSE PLANT; PEAT; POPULATION GROWTH; RHIZOSPHERE; SEEDLING;

CONIFEROPHYTA; FUNGI; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 84960337848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7020044     Document Type: Article

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