Labour partitioning within arbuscular mycorrhizal communities colonizing patchy environment
The objective of this research was to decipher if different mycorrhizal fungi would preferentially colonize patches of soil enriched with different organic nutrient sources, and which consequences would this have for soil microbial communities. This was achieved by constructing a synthetic fungal communities and inoculating them on plants in glasshouse microcosms, which contained patches amended with chitin, DNA, phytate or other sources.