The huge diversity of fungi may reflect both the heterogeneity of the niches they occupy and
the diverse stresses they must cope with. In order to investigate the genetic and functional …

Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi can alleviate heavy metal toxicity to their host plant, but the
mechanisms that lie behind this increased tolerance are unknown. As a first step in the …

Mycorrhizal fungi are key mediators of soil-to-plant movement of mineral nutrients, including
essential and non-essential metals. In soil conditions that facilitate mobilization of metal …

In the ecologically important arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), Sod1 encodes a functional
polypeptide that confers increased tolerance to oxidative stress and that is upregulated …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi confer heavy metal tolerance to plants, but this
characteristic differs between different AM fungal strains. We tested the hypotheses if …

A heavy metal tolerant strain of the ericoid mycorrhizal species Oidiodendron maius,
isolated from roots of Vaccinium myrtillus growing in soil heavily contaminated with zinc, was …

Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi increase the ability of their host plants to colonize soils polluted
with toxic metals, although the underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. Two …

The sequence encoding a superoxide dismutase (SOD) was isolated from the cDNA library
of a zinc-tolerant strain of the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius, grown under …

Introduction Heavy metal pollution is a strong driver of above-and belowground communities
and triggers evolutionary adaptation in organisms. This review provides an overview of our …

Ericoid mycorrhizal plants dominate in harsh environments where nutrient-poor, acidic soil
conditions result in a higher availability of potentially toxic metals. Although metal-tolerant …