Open AccessMYCORRHIZAS IN SOME NATIVE AND EXOTIC GRASSES (Ph.D. Thesis)
Author(s) -
J. R. Crush
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1973.35.1361
Subject(s) - tussock , endophyte , biology , grassland , botany , soil water , phosphorus , symbiosis , host (biology) , ecology , agronomy , bacteria , chemistry , genetics , organic chemistry
TUSSOCK GRASSLAND SOILS contain abundant coarse and fine VA endophytes. Rhizophagus tenuis is more prominent in high-altitude soils. This species is an effkieat symbiont with 'a variety of grasses but only under extreme phosphate deficiency; otherwise this endophyte may depress growth, probably by competing with its host for phosphorus.