Rock-eating fungi

A. G. Jongmans, N. van Breemen, U. Lundström, P. A. W. van Hees, R. D. Finlay, M. Srinivasan, T. Unestam, R. Giesler, P.-A. Melkerud and M. Olsson
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A. G. Jongmans: Soil Science and Geology, Wageningen Agricultural University
N. van Breemen: Soil Science and Geology, Wageningen Agricultural University
U. Lundström: University of Karlstad
P. A. W. van Hees: University of Karlstad
R. D. Finlay: SLU
M. Srinivasan: SLU
T. Unestam: SLU
R. Giesler: SLU
P.-A. Melkerud: SLU
M. Olsson: SLU

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6652, 682-683

Abstract: Abstract Weatherable minerals under many European coniferous forests contain a network of numerous tubular pores, formed by organic acids exuded by fungi. We believe that symbiotic mycorrhizal hyphae translocate dissolved minerals from the isolated micropores directly to their host plants, bypassing competition for nutrient uptake by other organisms. The discovery of this pathway challenges current ideas about nutrient uptake from the bulk soil solution and criteria for critical loads of acidic deposition on forests.

Date: 1997
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