Peter Herman x5495
rpeter at nmsu.edu
Tue Oct 25 02:10:10 EST 1994
In article <94102409463026 at hugo.fsufay.edu> dhaas at HUGO.FSUFAY.EDU writes:
>I had a student ask an interesting question this AM. "Are there any plants
>that form mutualistic relationships with both bacteria and fungi at the same
>time?" I told her that I couldn't give her a specific example but I didn't
>see why it couldn't happen. Does anyone know of examples of this? Do legumes
>containing Rhizobium also show endo or ecto mycorrhizal associations?
You are correct in your assumption that legumes can be nodulated by
rhizobia and be mycorrhizal as well. I know for sure it occurs in
Pisum, Trifolium and Medacago having read papers on all these with
nodules and VAM. I don't know for sure if Alnus or Myrica and the
other streptomycete symbionts but I would be surprised if it is not
New Mexico State Univ.
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