A novel experimental system using the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha and its fungal endophytes reveals diverse and context-dependent effects

New Phytologist

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1217-1232

  Nelson, Jessica M ^a,b   Hauser, Duncan A ^a   Hinson, Rosemary ^a   Shaw, A Jonathan ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

bryophyte; context dependency; fungal endophytes; gnotobiotic system; liverwort; Marchantia polymorpha; microbial symbiosis; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; LIVERWORT; MYCORRHIZA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; VASCULAR PLANT; WILD POPULATION;

BRYOPHYTES; FUNGI; MARCHANTIA POLYMORPHA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARCHANTIA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; XYLARIALES;

ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; MARCHANTIA; PHYLOGENY; XYLARIALES;

EID: 85041655579     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15012     Document Type: Article

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