Indigenous arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages protect grassland host plants from pathogens.

Plant roots can establish associations with neutral, beneficial and pathogenic groups of soil organisms. Although it has been recognized from the study of individual isolates that these associations are individually important for plant growth, little is known about interactions of whole assemblages...

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Main Authors: Jeannine Wehner, Pedro M Antunes, Jeff R Powell, Tancredi Caruso, Matthias C Rillig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3217940?pdf=render