title: Ectomycorrhizae between Alnus acuminata H.B.K. and Naucoria escharoides (Fr.:Fr.) Kummer from Argentina.
abstract: Field ectomycorrhizae of Naucoria escharoides on Alnus acuminata ("andean alder", "aliso del cerro") are described in detail for the first time. Naturally occurring ectomycorrhizal roots were sampled beneath sporocarps of N. escharoides. The samples were taken from four natural forest plots at two homogeneous A. acuminata sites (Tucumán and Catamarca Provinces, Argentina). The ectomycorrhizae were characterized morphologically and compared by means of PCR/RFLP analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region of the nuclear rDNA. The most important morphological features of the ectomycorrhizae are a white to pale yellow mantle, simple to monopodial branches, hyaline emanating hyphae, abundant hyphal bundles emerging more or less perpendicularly from a plectenchymatous mantle, and an acute or rounded apex with or without a mantle. N. escharoides fruitbodies have white basal mycelium with emanating hyphae similar to those of andean alder ectomycorrhizae. The RFLP profiles of sporocarps and mycorrhizae were the same.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET), C.C. 495, 5000 Córdoba, Argentina. abecerra@imbiv.unc.edu.ar
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Becerra
authors.forename: Graciela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Daniele
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Domínguez
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nouhra
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horton
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D029661:Alnus / Q000382:microbiology*; D001118:Argentina; D038821:Mycorrhizae / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014197:Trees / Q000382:microbiology*