Abstract
Five islands (Sinjindo, Mado, Daenanjido, Wonsando, and Sapsido) and the coastal area (Muchangpo) in Chungnam,
Korea, were selected to determine the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Soil-inhabiting AM fungi were isolated and
identified on the basis of morphological characteristics and sequence analyses of 18s rDNA. The differences in the fungal community
structures were compared among sites. As a result, 24 species of AM fungi were identified, of which two species of AM fungi,
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a grant (FP 0801-2010-01) from the Korea Forest Research Institute of the Republic of Korea.