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Spore germination inHebeloma stimulated by living plant roots

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Basidiospores from 14 strains ofHebeloma (Agaricales) representing 5 groups of mycorrhiza-forming species were tested for germination on a nutrient agar medium. Germination occurred in 13 strains but never exceeded 0.1%. A 10-fold increase or more in germination percentage was obtained in 4 out of 7 tested spore collections only by placing the growing root of a pine seedling among the spores on the agar medium.

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  1. Institute of Physiological Botany, University of Uppsala, Box 540, S-751 21, Uppsala, Sweden

    N. Fries & D. Birraux

  2. Laboratoire de Mycologie, Département de Biologie Végétale, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, F-69621, Villeurbanne, France

    N. Fries & D. Birraux

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This investigation was in part supported by a grant from the Swedish National Science Research Council.

The authors wish to thank Dr G. Bruchet for taxonomical identification of the fruit-body material.

This work was carried out when D. B. was holding a bilateral French-Swedish exchange fellowship (1978–79) through the Swedish Institute, Stockholm.

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Fries, N., Birraux, D. Spore germination inHebeloma stimulated by living plant roots. Experientia 36, 1056–1057 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01965965

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