Record ID No. |
5548 |
Author(s) |
Heberling J. M.* and Burke D. J. , 2019 |
Affiliation |
*Section of Botany, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA |
Title |
Utilizing herbarium specimens to quantify historical mycorrhizal communities. |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Applications in Plant Sciences. 7(4) |
Categories |
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Subjects |
General |
Sub-subjects |
Genetic Diversity |
Host |
Arisaema triphyllum, Maianthemum racemosum, Trillium erectum and Trillium grandiflorum. |
Organism |
Glomus spp., Funneliformis spp., Rhizopagus spp. |
Country |
USA |
Abstracts |
Mycorrhiza are critical to ecosystem functioning, but a lack of
historical baseline data limits our understanding of the long-term belowground effects of global change. Herbarium specimens may provide this needed insight. However, it is unknown whether DNA of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can be reliably extracted from vascular plant specimen roots. |