Facilitation of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) Seedling Establishment by Pinus virginiana in Mine Restoration

Figure 5

Photographed (45x) ECM morphotypes sampled from American chestnut (C. dentata) and P. virginiana root tips from pine plots. Panels display the following that were matched to vouchered GenBank sequences: (a) Thelephora sp. on C. dentata, (b) Thelephora sp. on P. virginiana, (c) Scleroderma sp. on C. dentata, (d) Scleroderma sp. on P. virginiana, (e) Pisolithus sp. on C. dentata, and (f) Pisolithus sp. on P. virginiana. Bar = 1 mm.

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