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Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis of tropical African trees.
Mycorrhiza - 1 Jan 2012
Bâ Amadou M, Duponnois Robin, Moyersoen Bernard, Diédhiou Abdala G
Abstract excerpt
The diversity, ecology and function of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi and ectomycorrhizas (ECMs) on tropical African tree species are reviewed here. While ECMs are the most frequent mycorrhizal type in temperate and boreal forests, they concern an economically and ecologically important minority of plants in African tropical forests. In these African tropical forests, ECMs are found mainly on caesalpionioid legumes,...
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