This book comprises an account of endomycorrhizal fungi of Poochipara and Valakkadu sections of Silent Valley National park, gives the first hand information of 70 species of endomycorrhizal fungi belonging to 12 genera distributed among three orders: Glomerales, Diversisporales and Archaeosporales. This is an identification manual introduces the subject states the methodology in simplified form, provides dichotomous key to orders, families genera and species. Individual taxon is dealt in detail and is supplemented with the photomicrographs and the location of their deposition and number to ease the difficulty in locating them by the subsequent researchers. This is a sound comprehensive and the perfect taxonomic work dealt with the endomycorrhizal fungi of this biodiversity rich area useful to students teachers, researchers, foresters and naturalists.
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Mycorrhizae. 3. Silent valley national park. 4. Methodology. 5. Plants in different ecosystems. 6. Colonization and spore density. 7. Mycorrhizal diversity. 8. Taxonomy. Reference.
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