Unearthing the roots of ectomycorrhizal symbioses

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 760-773

  Martin, Francis ^a   Kohler, Annegret ^a   Murat, Claude ^a   Veneault Fourrey, Claire ^b   Hibbett, David S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

BIODEGRADATION; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SAPROTROPH; SYMBIOSIS; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONIFER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CONIFEROPHYTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84992723872     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.149     Document Type: Review

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