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Martins et al. this paper found that mycorrhizal and nonmycizal roots accumulate orthophosphate, which indicates that this system relies upon the fungal polyphosphates as a major source of phosphate.
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...…with factors that include P availability and the relative growth rates of the host and ECM fungal partner, but as much as 90% of absorbed P can be retained in the fungal tissues of excised ECM root tips, mainly in the form of polyphosphates (Harley and McCready 1952, 1981; Martins et al. 1999)....
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...…role in the transportation and storage of phosphorus in the fungus, and when P was added to ectomycorrhizal fungi, PolyP signals were found in the31P NMR spectra (Ashford et al., 1994; Gerlitz and Gerlitz, 1997; Gerlitz and Werk, 1994; Martin et al., 1983, 1985, 1994; Martins et al., 1999)....
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...Signal identification was carried out according to chemical shifts reported in other ectomycorrhizal fungi (Gerlitz & Werk 1994; Martins et al. 1999)....
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