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cje ›› 2004, Vol. ›› Issue (6): 149-154.

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Biodiversity of AM fungi in China

WANG Fayuan, LIN Xiangui, ZHOU Jianmin   

  1. Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
  • Received:2003-04-13 Revised:2003-06-28 Online:2004-12-10

Abstract: In the symbiotic association of plant and fungi,arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM),which is formed between plants and Glomales fungi,has the widest distribution in the nature.AM fungi inhabit a variety of ecosystems including farmland,forests and many stressed environments and colonize the roots of most plants,including bryophyte,pteridophyte,gymnosperm and angiosperm.Atotal of 99 AM fungi species within 7 genera have been reported in the rhizosphere of different plants in various environments of China since 1980s.Advances in the past 20 years in AM fungal biodiversity,including species diversity,habitat diversity and host diversity,were reviewed in this paper.Some prospects in the biodiversity of AMfungi were also given in the article.

Key words: Ecosystem health assessment, Korean pine and broad-leaved mixed forest, Health distance

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