Claim · #6492765
Glomeromycota (phylum) · mutualism · Artemisia tridentata
mutualism · effect: beneficial
mutualistOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“plants of Artemisia tridentata and Oryzopsis hymenoides adjacent to nests were colonized very rapidly”
- Authors
- Smith S.E., Read D.
- Year
- 2008
- Publication
- Academic Press (Elsevier)
- Page
- 51
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Harvester ants are documented vectors of AM spores; rapid mycorrhizal colonization near abandoned nests in arid shrubland is ecologically consistent with known inoculum-accumulation mechanisms.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“AMF (Glomeromycota) colonizing Artemisia tridentata via ant-nest inoculum is biologically coherent; sagebrush forms AMF associations and the mechanism (spore accumulation) is documented in literature.”
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