| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥6,890,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,590,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project was to clarify the survival strategy of plants living on the dark forest floor at various forest ecosystems in terms of the underground view of mycorrhizal associations. For this aim, I focused on Pyrola japonica (Ericaceae) that distributes ubiquitously in east Asia. I collected the plants from Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and genetic analysis of the root system was carried out. In the rootsystem, members of Russulaceae that are known to be ectomycorrhizal fungi associating with woody plants taxa. These results suggest that the plants growing on the forest floor retain similar mycorrhizal fungal taxa that are in common with the trees.
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