Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Plant Relationships

Editor list: Deising, HB

Publication year: 2009

Pages: 99-112

ISBN: 978-3-540-87406-5

eISBN: 978-3-540-87407-2

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87407-2_5

Title of series: The Mycota

Number in series: 5

Abstract: 

Plants are potential targets (hosts) for a broad spectrum of microbial
organisms. The outcome of these associations can be roughly categorised
into mutualistic, commensalistic or pathogenic relationships.
Interactions with certain mutualistic fungal microbes can benefit
plants, resulting for example in an improved plant development even
under unfavourable environmental conditions (Chap. 15). Simultaneously,
the microbial partners acquire nutrients from the host and can be
protected from environmental stress or competitors (Schulz and Boyle
2005). In other cases it is the microbes that primarily profit from the
association, with the host fitness being either apparently unaffected
(commensalism) or thoroughly impaired (pathogenesis; Redman et al.
2001).

Harvard Citation style: Schäfer, P. and Kogel, K. (2009) The Sebacinoid Fungus Piriformospora indica: an Orchid Mycorrhiza Which May Increase Host Plant Reproduction and Fitness, in Deising, H. (ed.) Plant Relationships. Berlin: Springer, pp. 99-112. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87407-2_5

APA Citation style: Schäfer, P., & Kogel, K. (2009). The Sebacinoid Fungus Piriformospora indica: an Orchid Mycorrhiza Which May Increase Host Plant Reproduction and Fitness. In Deising, H. (Ed.), Plant Relationships (pp. 99-112). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87407-2_5