Concepts in Mycorrhizal Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza — an overview

   • Deepti Srivastava, Rupam Kapoor, S. K. Srivastava, K. G. Mukerji

   Pages 1-39

3. Mycorrhizal research — a priority in agriculture

   • N. Raman, A. Mahadevan

   Pages 41-75

4. Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis recognition and specificity

   • K. Annapurna, K. V. B. R. Tilak, K. G. Mukerji

   Pages 77-90

5. Morphofunctional integration and cellular compatibility between endomycorrhizal symbionts

   • Armelle Gollotte, Marie-Claude Lemoine, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson

   Pages 91-111

6. Influence of mycorrhization on the growth of micropropagated plants

   • Ajit Varma, Hannes Schuepp

   Pages 113-132

7. Diversity and selective dominance of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

   • Naveen P. Bhatia, Krishna Sundari, Alok Adholeya

   Pages 133-178

8. Cost-economics of existing methodologies for inoculum production of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

   • Anjali Verma, Alok Adholeya

   Pages 179-194

9. Mycorrhiza: ecological implications of plant interactions

   • Christian T. Pedersen, David M. Sylvia

   Pages 195-222

10. Outplanting performance of mycorrhizal inoculated seedlings

    • Michael A. Castellano

    Pages 223-301

11. Fluorescence microscopy in mycorrhiza studies

    • P. Cudlín, E. Chmelíková, J. Plášek

    Pages 303-314

12. Ectomycorrhizae in oaks (Quercus alba, Q. rubra) in Northeastern Pennsylvania woodlands: Morphology, frequency and implied physiology and ecology

    • Lorraine Mineo, S. K. Majumdar

    Pages 315-331

13. Ectomycorrhizal fungi as experimental organisms

    • T. Satyanarayana, Vandana Gupta, Sandeep Garg

    Pages 333-346

14. Molecular and general genetics of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    • Vandana Gupta, T. Satyanarayana

    Pages 347-365

15. Back Matter

    Pages 367-374

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Mycorrhiza will be the focus of research and study for the coming decade. Successful survival and maintenance of plant cover is mostly dependent on mycorrhization. During the last decade about ten books have appeared on various aspects of mycorrhiza, including two on methodology. The present book has been compiled to give a complete and comprehensive description of the topic to the students and researchers in botany, applied mycology, biotechnology, forestry and agriculture. The book will also be useful to planners dealing with biofertilizers and forestation. Besides topics of academic interest, the volume includes several aspects which are unique and are written about for the first time, e.g.:

• Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis - recognition and specificity;
• Mycorrhizal Integration and cellular compatibility between Endomycorrhizal symbionts;
• Cost - economics of existing methodology for inoculum production of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi;
• Mycorrhiza: Ecological Implications of Plant interactions;
• Outplanting performance of mycorrhizal inoculated seedlings;
• Fluorescence microscopy in mycorrhiza studies and Ectomycorrhizal fungi as experimental organism.

Other aspects not mentioned above include most recent reviews concerning vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza and ectomycorrhizae. The different review chapters have been written by world authorities in their respective specialisations giving more up to date information than is provided anywhere else.
This book deals with all major aspects of mycorrhiza, giving structure, ultrastructure, ecology and applications in agriculture and forestry.

• biotechnology
• botanics
• ecology
• forest
• mycology
• physiology
• seedlings

`... the book can be recommended to students or specialists, who are interested in one or several of the specific topics.'
European Journal of Forest Pathology, 1 (1998)

• Applied Mycology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

  K. G. Mukerji

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