Diversisporales
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Diversisporales is an order of fungi within the phylum Glomeromycota.
These fungi are plant symbionts using Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) which is similar to Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (AM), except with the addition of storage vesicles intercellularly, which are used as energy stores.
[edit] References
- C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell, Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004) ISBN: 0-471-52229-5
