ABSTRACT

Fig. 1.4 Examples of types of spore ornamentations useful during morphotyping of ectomycorrhizal fungi (Source: Redrawn from Brundrett et al., 1996).

Fig. 1.5 Diagrammatic representation of electrophoretic patterns of soluble proteins extracted from spores of G. mosseae grown on four different hosts, namely A. Allium cepa; B. Frageria vesca; C. Medicago sativa and D. Myrtus communis. The electrophoretic patterns E and F were obtained from G. mosseae isolates collected from two different geographic locations (Source: Drawn based on Avio and Giovannetti, 1998). Note: The consistency in band patterns despite large variation in sample source, both in terms of host species and geographic location proves the usefulness of this technique during classification of AM fungi. kDa refers to the size of protein.