Mycorrhiza/Arctic help

[SEELIGERC at AXE.HUMBOLDT.EDU]

There was an article in the Jan-Feb 1995 (I believe) issue of Arctic and 
Alpine Research on Salix bearing DSE infections in Norway.

These infections show up in arctic and alpine plants, where little 
mineralized nitrogen is available.  I'd wager a rootbeer float that these 
infections make organic N available to the hosts in some manner.  This 
isn't that odd of an idea--Read found (I think) that infections in 
Vaccinium macrocarpon made simple organic N compounds available to the host.

Now that I think of it, there was another article some time back (I 
didn't read the article, just saw it while searching through Agricola) on 
an arctic plant (Erigeron?) that directly used organic N.  I don't recall 
seeing any mention of mycorrhiza in the database entry, so this may 
provide a counter example...

curt
seeligerc at axe.humboldt.edu


On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Aubrey Jackson wrote:

> I am trying to find information on the importance of mycorrhizae
> activity to the growth of arctic plants.  I specifically need to know
> if there are any good articles out there.  Any help will be
> appreciated.  Thanks
> 			A.J.
> 
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