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Differential effects of AM fungal isolates on Medicago truncatula growth and metal uptake in a multimetallic (Cd, Zn, Pb) contaminated agricultural soil
Toxic metal accumulation in soils of agricultural interest is a serious problem needing more attention, and investigations on soil–plant metal transfer must be pursued to better understand the processes involv...
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Microbial Diversity During Cellulose Decomposition in Different Forest Stands: I. Microbial Communities and Environmental Conditions
We studied the effect of forest tree species on a community of decomposers that colonize cellulose strips. Both fungal and bacterial communities were targeted in a native forest dominated by beech and oak and ...
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Identification of Ty1-copia retrotransposons in three ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes: evolutionary relationships and use as molecular markers
We amplified by PCR and sequenced 46 partial Ty1-copia reverse transcriptase (RT) sequences from the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes Pisolithus and Laccaria bicolor and the host tree Eucalyptus globulus. Phylogen...
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Root hair elongation is inhibited by hypaphorine, the indole alkaloid from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius, and restored by indole-3-acetic acid
Hypaphorine, the major indolic compound isolated from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus tinctorius, controls the elongation rate of root hairs. At inhibitory concentrations (100 μM), hypaphorine induced a tr...
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The expression of a symbiosis-regulated gene in eucalypt roots is regulated by auxins and hypaphorine, the tryptophan betaine of the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Pisolithus tinctorius
A full-length cDNA coding for a symbiosis-regulated transcript, EgHypar, was isolated by differential screening from a Eucalyptus globulus bicostata–Pisolithus tinctorius ectomycorrhiza. The sequence of this clo...