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

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

202 E, Midwest Airlines Center

1:30 PM

COS 100-1

The role of arbuscular mycorrhiza in arid and saline ecosystems
Edith Hammer, Lund University; Jan Pallon, Physics; Pål-Axel Olsson, Lund University; Johanna Ragnarsson, Lund University; Hafedh Nasr, National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water and Forest; Håkan Wallander, Lund University

1:50 PM

COS 100-2

Do soil factors shape arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a serpentine grassland?
Jennifer H. Doherty, University of Washington; Stephen P. Bentivenga, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania

2:10 PM

COS 100-3

The role of mycorrhizal fungi in promoting exotic grass persistence
Sophie S. Parker, University of California, Santa Barbara; Carla D'Antonio, University of California Santa Barbara

2:30 PM

COS 100-4

Geographic locality and host identity shape fungal endophyte communities in cupressaceous trees
Michele T. Hoffman, University of Arizona; A. Elizabeth Arnold, University of Arizona

2:50 PM

COS 100-5

Barcoding arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi with terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism
Baoming Ji, Indiana University; Brenda Casper, University of Pennsylvania; Catherine Gehring, Northern Arizona University; Nancy Johnson, Northern Arizona University

3:10 PM

COS 100-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 100-6

Tri-trophic interactions: The role of mycorrhizal fungi on plant compensation following ungulate herbivory
Cassandra M. Allsup, University of Illinois; Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

3:40 PM

COS 100-7

What prevent plants from becoming heterotrophic on their mycorrhizal fungi: Insight from the study of achlorophyllous variants in green orchid species
Mélanie H. Roy, CEFE CNRS; Claire Damesin, CNRS UMR8079; Jean-Claude Thomas, ENS Ulm; Marc-André Selosse, CEFE CNRS

4:00 PM

COS 100-8

Links between root morphology and root foraging in arbuscular mycorrhizal trees
David M. Eissenstat, The Pennsylvania State University; Joshua M. Kucharski, Pennsylvania State University; Marcin Zadworny, Polish Academy of Sciences

4:20 PM

COS 100-9

Spatial segregation of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi in boreal and tropical forest soils
Krista L. McGuire, Barnard College, Columbia University; Steven Allison, University of California, Irvine; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine

4:40 PM

COS 100-10

Relative effects of genotype, mycorrhizal colonization, and elevated CO₂ on the defensive phenotype of Asclepias syriaca
Rachel L. Vannette, Stanford University; Mark D. Hunter, University of Michigan

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