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A history of research on arbuscular mycorrhiza

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This is not a review paper in the traditional sense, of which there are many. Three of the most influential reviews that summarized well some of the “older” literature include those by Nicolson (1967), Gerdemann (1968) and Mosse (1973). Instead, in this brief and incomplete work, we attempt to show the historical development of research on arbuscular mycorrhizas. We owe much to those who have written other historical accounts, including Rayner (1926–1927), Trappe and Berch (1985), Mosse (1985), Schenck (1985), Harley (1991) and Allen (1996), but the contents of this work naturally reflect our own ignorance, interests and biases. It was often difficult to distinguish between the historical and the contemporary, and we did not use any specific cutoff date in making this distinction. The degree to which we include “contemporary” literature was determined by our own assessment of its connectedness to older literature. In any case, we hope this will be of some interest to those of you who study the arbuscular mycorrhiza, and that it will serve the purpose of providing what we consider to be an important historical context for current researchers. We wish you good fortune in your research.

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This paper is modified from a lecture given by R.T.K. at the COST 8.38 Meeting, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Research in Europe, The Dawning of a New Millennium, in Pisa, Italy. We thank the international and local organizing committees of that meeting and, in particular, Manuela Giovannetti for the opportunity to present that lecture. We also thank Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson for her encouragement to publish the lecture in this format, and Guillaume Bécard for his suggestion that we (B.M. and R.T.K.) collaborate in this effort. We are indebted to Guillaume Bécard for consultation on various sections of this paper, to Paul Grun, who translated a paper from the French, to Eckhard George, who supplied us with information about the 1960 meeting in Weimar, to Sally Smith, with whom we have discussed the contributions of some of the pioneers in our field, and to André Fortin and Paola Bonfante for their suggestions of material to include. We express our gratitude to the Life Sciences librarians at the Pennsylvania State University, and to the librarians at the Botany Libraries of Harvard University for their help in obtaining some of the older sources referenced herein. We dedicate this paper to The Nim, a thirteen-year old Geochelone chilensis, who lives happily half of each year in central France, and the other half in the south of England.

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Koide, R.T., Mosse, B. A history of research on arbuscular mycorrhiza. Mycorrhiza 14, 145–163 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-004-0307-4

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