Taxonomy, culture and mycorrhizal associations of some zygosporic Endogonaceae

• Published in: Mycological research Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 173 - 178
• Main Author: Warcup, J.H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 1990; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agar culture of Endogone; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions; Biological and medical sciences; culture media; Ectomycorrhiza; Endogonaceae; Endogone; endogone aggregata; endogone tuberculosa; Eucalyptus; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Fungi; growth rate; mycorrhizae; new taxa; Pinus; Plant cytology, morphology, systematics, chorology and evolution; Sclerogone eucalypti; taxonomy; Thallophyta; Australia; Oceania; Eucalyptus; Ectomycorrhiza; Pinus; Endogonaceae; Agar culture of Endogone; Sclerogone eucalypti; Symbiosis; Cultural practice; Taxonomy; Phycomycetes; Host specificity; Diagnosis (taxonomy); Subculture; Fungi; Sporocarp; Geographic distribution; Dicotyledones; Morphology; Angiospermae; Softwood forest tree; Gymnospermae; Mycorrhiza; Myrtaceae; Hardwood forest tree; Coniferales; Spermatophyta; Thallophyta
• ISSN: 0953-7562; 1469-8102
• DOI: 10.1016/S0953-7562(09)80609-6

Endogone aggregata, E. tuberculosa and Sclerogone eucalypti gen. et sp. nov. have been shown to form ectomycorrhizas with Eucalyptus and other Australian ectomycorrhizal hosts, mycorrhiza complexity differing depending on fungus and host. E. flammicorona, however, formed ectomycorrhiza only with Pinus. E. reticulata grew among the roots of eucalypts and other plants but appeared to be non-mycorrhizal. E. aggregata, E. tuberculosa, E. reticulata and S. eucalypti all grew on weak agar media, but E. flammicorona although often growing extensively from sporocarps was not subcultured successfully.