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Most plants engage in symbioses with mycorrhizal fungi in soils and net consequences for plants vary widely from mutualism to parasitism. However, we lack a synthetic understanding of the evolutionary and ecol...
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Detection of transgenic cp4 epsps genes in the soil food web
The persistence and movement of transgenic DNA in agricultural and natural systems is largely unknown. This movement poses a threat of horizontal gene transfer and possible proliferation of genetically modifie...
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The use of commercial arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) inoculants is growing. However, we know little about how resident AM communities respond to inoculations under different soil management conditions. The object...
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Spatial Heterogeneity in Mycorrhizal Populations and Communities: Scales and Mechanisms
The importance of a spatial context in understanding the ecology and evolution of organisms has become increasingly clear. Although there is a growing awareness of the importance of mycorrhizal fungi in many c...
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In this chapter, we review recent literature pertaining to the debate linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, highlighting the role of arbuscular mycorrhizae. We suggest that the arbuscular mycorrhizal...
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Temporal and spatial relationships in a maple-forest soil among mycophagous microarthropods, total hyphal length, vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) fungus spores, microfungus diversity, root biomass and s...
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Relationships among microarthropods, fungi, and their environment
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