title: Biodiversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: And Dependency of Forest Trees on Mycorrhizae
author: Partha Pratim Dhar
description: Dr. P.P. Dhar was born in the villeage Dabua, PS: Raozan, Chittagong, Bangladesh. He obtained B.Sc (Hons.) in 1987, M.Sc. in 1988 and PhD in 2007 from the Dept. of Botany, Chittagong University, Bangladesh. His PhD supervisor was Prof. Dr. M. A. U. Mridha. He has been in the Dinajpur Govt College as Associate Professor in the Dept. of Botany.
zlib_text: Feeding on Plant-pathogenic Fungi
  T.P. McGonigle and M. Hyakumachi
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  Feeding on Plant-pathogenic
  Fungi by Invertebrates:
  Comparison with Saprotrophic
  and Mycorrhizal Systems
  T.P. McGonigle1,2 and M. Hyakumachi1
  1Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan;
  2Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University,
  Campus Box 8044, ID 83209, USA
  Introduction
  This chapter compares the effects of invertebrate grazing on pathogenic fungi
  to effects on saprotrophic and mycorrhizal fungi. Reviews on invertebrate
  grazing of saprotrophic (Reichle, 1977; Ingham, 1992; McGonigle, 1995) and
  mycorrhizal (Fitter and Sanders, 1992; McGonigle, 1995) fungi indicated a
  significant impact of fungivory on function. For saprotrophic fungi, function
  has been evaluated in terms of nutrient mineralization in an ecosystem con-
  text, whereas for mycorrhizal fungi, the focus has been on function in terms of
  nutrient acquisition by plants. Other reviews have discussed the role of grazing
  in 