GERMINATION.
A germ tube emerges from the lumen of the subtending
hypha.
MYCORRHIZAE.
Many attempts to establish one-species cultures of Gl. fasciculatum
with different plant hosts failed. No literature data exists of the properties
of mycorrhizae of this fungus.
DISTRIBUTION.
Glomus
fasciculatum has been present in dunes of the Baltic Sea coast (Błaszkowski
1993a, 1994, 1995; Błaszkowski et al. 2002a; Tadych and Błaszkowski 2000a),
the Bledowska Desert (50o22’N, 19o34’E; Błaszkowski et al. 2002b),
and other Polish sites with both cultivated and uncultivated plants (Błaszkowski
1993b; Tadych and Błaszkowski 2000b).
This
fungus has a worldwide distribution (Bergen and Koske 1984; Dalpé 1989;
Gemma and Koske 1989; Giovannetti and Nicolson 1983; Koske and Halvorson 1981;
Nicolson and Johnston 1979; Puppi and Riess 1987; Rose 1988; Talukdar and
Germida 1993).
NOTES.
The unique property of Gl. fasciculatum is the dextrinoid reaction
of the laminate spore wall layer 2. Of other species of the Glomeromycota,
this property appears only in members of the genera Gigaspora and
Scutellospora.
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