Mycorrhizas in Ecosystems

by D.J. Read and Alastair H. Fitter

In nature, the roots of most plants are infected by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza which play a central role in the capture of nutrients from the soil. Most of our knowledge of the biology of the mycorrhizal symbiosis has been derived from studies carried out under controlled conditions in the laboratory or glasshouse. There is an increasing awareness of the need to extend these studies to the more natural situations in which the symbiosis evolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851987869
• ISBN13: 9780851987866
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages