Plant preferential allocation and fungal reward decline with soil phosphorus: implications for mycorrhizal mutualism

Abstract Explaining the persistence of mutualism remains a challenge in ecology and evolutionary biology. The evolutionary stability of arbuscular mycorrhiza, a most widespread and ancient mutualistic association, is particularly intriguing because plants lack apparent mechanisms to prevent cheaters...

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Main Authors: Baoming Ji, James D. Bever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-05-01
Series:Ecosphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1256