
%0 Journal Article
%A Cairney, JWG 
%A Ashford, AE 
%T Reducing Activity at the Root Surface in <I>Eucalyptus pilularis&#8211;Pisolithus tinctorius</I> Ectomycorrhizas
%J Functional Plant Biology
%D 1989/02/01
%V 16
%N 1
%P 99-105
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9890099
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PP9890099 
%X Mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal areas of root systems of Eucalyptus pilularis Sm. seedlings, grown in growth pouches and inoculated with Pisolithus tinctorius (Pers.) Coker &amp; Couch, were compared with regard to their surface reducing activity. Mycorrhizal roots were shown to reduce silver bromide, ferric EDTA and a higher oxide of manganese while non-mycorrhizal roots of the same plants did not. A number of ecto- and endomycorrhizal fungi were screened for reducing ability. All fungal isolates tested, with the exception of Hebeloma crustuliniforme and a suspected ectomycorrhizal symbiont from Pisonia grandis roots, were capable of reducing a manganic oxide. 
