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Water relations, drought and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

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Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can affect the water balance of both amply watered and droughted host plants. This review summarizes these effects and possible causal mechanisms. Also discussed are host drought resistance and the influence of soil drying on the fungi.

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  1. Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, O.H.L.D., University of Tennessee, P.O. Box 1071, Knoxville, TN 37901-1071, USA e-mail: auge@utk.edu http://ohld.ag.utk.edu/auge/ Tel.: +1-865-9747324, Fax: +1-865-9741947, , , , , , US

    Robert M. Augé

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Accepted: 30 December 2000

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Augé, R. Water relations, drought and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Mycorrhiza 11, 3–42 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005720100097

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