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VISUALIZATION OF PHOSPHATE ACCUMULATION IN BEECH MYCORRHIZAS
Author(s) -
Chilvers G. A.,
Harley J. L.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1980.tb04432.x
Subject(s) - beech , fagus sylvatica , phosphate , polyphosphate , botany , biology , biochemistry
SUMMARY Histochemically monitored uptake experiments, using strips of fungal sheath dissected from beech (Fagus sylvatica) mycorrhizas and incubated in phosphate solutions under a range of conditions, show that accumulation of phosphate is closely paralleled by increases in the number and size of polyphosphate‐containing metachromatic granules, suggesting that these granules represent a major pool of storage phosphate.