
%0 Journal Article
%A Logan, VS 
%A Clarke, PJ 
%A Allaway, WG 
%T Mycorrhizas and Root Attributes of Plants of Coastal Sand-Dunes of New South Wales
%J Functional Plant Biology
%D 1989/02/01
%V 16
%N 1
%P 141-146
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/PP9890141
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/PP9890141 
%X Root samples of 41 sand-dune plant species in 28 families were collected from sites along the coast of New South Wales during spring 1987. Of the species, 36 had vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas, with vesicles and internal and external hyphae. Among these species there was great variation in the pro- portion of root length colonised by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (from 1 to 96%); in 33 species over 10% of root length was infected. Of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal species, 21 showed arbuscules, and 16 had intracellular hyphal coils. In four plant species mycorrhizas were not found in the single samples examined; ericoid mycorrhizas were present in the remaining species, Leucopogon parviflorus, but its vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal status could not be assessed. The results, though preliminary, may reflect a high vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal status of vegetation of coastal sand-dunes of New South Wales. This would be likely to enhance plant nutrition and sandbinding, and to have implications for sand-dune management. 
