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Mycorrhizal symbiosis exists in all terrestrial ecosystems and plays important functions in both natural and human-altered environments. Angiosperm species are mostly endomycorrhizal, whereas the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis involves only about 3% of all phanerogams but a large number of tree species. Harley and Harley (1987a,b) mentioned that mycorrhizas occur in 75–80% of the vascular plants of the British flora. According to Read (1992), ectomycorrhizal trees are the natural dominants of the boreal and temperate forests and are important also in tropical rainforests. The fungi that form ectomycorrhizas belong to the Ascomycotina (several hundred species) and to the Basidiomycotina (around 5000 known species). Few ectomycorrhizal fungi are Zygomycotina or Imperfect Fungi. Altogether, ectomycorrhizal species represent approximately 10% of the 69000 known fungal species (Hawk-sworth 1991).
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Debaud, JC., Marmeisse, R., Gay, G. (1997). Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Fungal Partner in the Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis Hebeloma cylindrosporum × Pinus pinaster . In: Carroll, G.C., Tudzynski, P. (eds) Plant Relationships Part B. The Mycota, vol 5B. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60647-2_6
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