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. 2016 Sep 7;7:12662. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12662

Figure 1. The ectomycorrhizal ascomycete Cenococcum geophilum.

Figure 1

(a) Phylogenomic placement within Dothideomycetes. The tree including all selected species is shown in Supplementary Fig. 1. (b) An ectomycorrhizal (ECM) root tip of C. geophilum-Pinus sylvestris showing darkly melanized hyphae emanating from the black mantle, and (c,d) longitudinal sections of a C. geophilum-P. sylvestris ECM root tip showing the mantle (m), the Hartig net hyphae (hn) between epidermal (ec) and cortical (cc) root cells as well as the central stele (cs). Scale bars, 1 mm in b; 0.2 mm in c; 50 μm in d.