Unity in diversity: structural and functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi

New Phytologist

Volumn 220, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 996-1011

  Field, Katie J ^a   Pressel, Silvia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carbon for nutrient exchange; diversity; evolution; fungi; Glomeromycotina; Mucoromycotina; mycorrhiza; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENDOPHYTE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FACILITATION; FINE ROOT; FUNGUS; MUTUALISM; MYCORRHIZA; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI;

CARBON;

BIODIVERSITY; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; FUNGI; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85052991649     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15158     Document Type: Review

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