Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: More Diverse than Meets the Eye, and the Ecological Tale of Why

Abstract

Presents research on the ecology of interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Discovery that the underground world is diverse and dynamic; Process of discovery; Mechanisms that might maintain fungal diversity; Implications of this diversity for ecology as a whole; Importance of AM fungi in the facilitation of plants' uptake of phosphorus.