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Article: Mycorrhizae are present in cycad roots.
- Article from:
- The Botanical Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
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I. Abstract
II. Introduction
III. Materials and Methods
IV. Results
A. Root Anatomy
B. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
V. Discussion
A. Root Anatomy and AMF Colonization
B. Possible Significance of Mycorrhizae
VI. Acknowledgments
VII. Literature Cited
II. Introduction
The symbiotic relationship between cycad roots and the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc is well recognized (Lindblad & Bergman, 1989; Norstog & Nicholls, 1997). However, recent reviews have not noted that mycorrhizae, root-fungal symbioses, also occur in cycads (Norstog & Nicholls, 1997; Smith & Read, 1997), even though arbuscular mycorrhizae were first ...