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Arbuscular mycorrhizal modifications to plant root systems: scale, mechanisms and consequences

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Plant root systems serve a variety of different functions at the plant, community and ecosystem scales. For the plant they provide stability for the shoot, an organ for uptake, transport and storage of water and nutrients and are frequently the site of nitrogen-fixing or mycorrhizal symbioses. At the community and ecosystem scale they provide a source of photo-autotrophic carbon, through symbiosis or exudation and root mortality, that is utilised by symbionts or rhizosphere organisms respectively.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Avanzate, Università del Piemonte Orientale ‘A. Avogadro’, Corso Borsalino 54, I-15100, Alessandria, Italy

    G. Berta

  2. Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università di Torino, Viale Mattioli 25, I-10125, Torino, Italy

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  3. School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan, CF37 IUD, UK

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Berta, G., Fusconi, A., Hooker, J.E. (2002). Arbuscular mycorrhizal modifications to plant root systems: scale, mechanisms and consequences. In: Gianinazzi, S., Schüepp, H., Barea, J.M., Haselwandter, K. (eds) Mycorrhizal Technology in Agriculture. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8117-3_6

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