| the effect of different pine hosts on the sampling of rhizopogon spore banks in five eastern sierra nevada forests. | our primary goal was to determine whether detection of rhizopogon internal transcribed spacer (its) groups is affected by the pine species used in seedling bioassays. our secondary goal was to investigate composition of rhizopogon spore banks in the eastern sierra nevada of california, a previously unsampled region. we used seedlings of pinus contorta, pinus jeffreyi, pinus lambertiana, and pinus muricata as bioassay plants and identified the rhizopogon retrieved by internal transcribed spacer ( ... | 2006 | 16626476 |