Human Activities Shift Dominant Tree-Fungi Pairing in North America (4 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Human Activities Shift Dominant Tree-Fungi Pairing in North America (4 of 5)

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Roots of a sugar maple (Acer saccharum) tree, which often associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from Indiana. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 10, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Jo at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and colleagues was titled, "Shifts in dominant tree mycorrhizal associations in response to anthropogenic impacts."

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[Credit: Rich Phillips]

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