AMF communities in the roots of four characteristic native plants of costal foredunes in nine locations in Greece

We studied the AMF communities colonizing the roots of four characteristic native plants of costal foredunes in nine locations in Greece to investigate the role of plant host and abiotic environmental filtering on their assembly. AMF communities were analyzed via Illumina MiSeq 2x300 bp pair-end sequencing, using a semi-nested approach targeting the SSU region of the 18S rRNA gene. The Glomeromycota-specific AML1-AML2 primer pair (Lee et al., 2008) was used initially, followed by WANDA-AML2 (Dumbrell et al., 2011).