Revisiting mycorrhizal dogmas: Are mycorrhizas really functioning as they are widely believed to do?

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by an ARC-funded Discovery Project grant (DP130100005) awarded to HL and KD is supported by the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Mine Site Restoration (Project Number 389 ICI150100041).

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