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LARGE areas of the northern hemisphere are covered with nutrient-poor soils which support ericaceous plants. The roots of the most important representatives, Calluna vulgaris L. Hull. and species of Vaccinium and Erica, are always infected with an endotrophic mycorrhizal fungus. Much early work on these mycorrhizas was devoted to a controversy surrounding the nature of the infection and there is little known of the physiological role of the mycorrhizal association1.
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READ, D., STRIBLEY, D. Effect of Mycorrhizal Infection on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Nutrition of Ericaceous Plants. Nature New Biology 244, 81–82 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio244081a0
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