93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008)

COS 116 - Mycorrhizae and Plant-Fungal Interactions II

Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
201 A, Midwest Airlines Center
8:00 AM
Root trait diversity among AM and EM temperate trees: Partitioning ecological and phylogenetic variation
Louise H. Comas, Penn State University; Hilary S. Callahan, Barnard College, Columbia University
8:20 AM
Elucidating biotic factors that influence fungal endophyte community assembly
Megan Saunders, University of California Santa Cruz; Anthony E. Glenn, USDA, ARS, SAA, RBRRC; Linda M. Kohn, University of Toronto
8:40 AM
Both conspecific and heterospecific tree-soil feedbacks influence growth and survivorship of temperate tree seedlings
Sarah McCarthy-Neumann, Michigan State University; Richard K. Kobe, Michigan State University
9:00 AM
Aphid secondary parasitoids can discriminate against hosts from plants associated with fungal endosymbionts
Simone A. Härri, University of Guelph; Jochen Krauss, University of Würzburg; Christine B. Müller, Institute of Environmental Sciences
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Plant resistance to bacterial pathogens in nature
M. Brian Traw, University of Pittsburgh
10:30 AM
Pooled samples bias estimates of fungal species richness and composition
Peter G. Avis, Indiana University Northwest; Greg Mueller, The Field Museum of Natural History; Sara Branco, The Field Museum of Natural History; Yaya Tang, Yale University