BACKGROUND All vascular plants associate with fungi and bacteria—the microbiome. Root
associations with mycorrhizal fungi benefit most plants by enhancing their nutrient access …

Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis occurs between obligate biotrophic fungi of the
phylum Glomeromycota and most land plants. The exchange of nutrients between host …

Intercropping is a powerful way to promote a more diversified plant community in the field,
thereby enabling complementary and facilitative relationships. In these systems, legumes …

Mycorrhizal fungal networks linking the roots of trees in forests are increasingly recognized
to facilitate inter-tree communication via resource, defense, and kin recognition signaling …

Predominant frameworks for understanding plant ecology have an aboveground bias that
neglects soil micro-organisms. This is inconsistent with recent work illustrating the …

Agriculture is facing up to an increasing number of challenges, including the need to ensure
various ecosystem services and to resolve apparent conflicts between them. One of the …

Nitrogen is the most limiting nutrient in most agro-ecosystems and thus critical for sustaining
high yields. Conventional agricultural practices use synthetic fertilizers to ensure an …

Most land plants are symbiotic with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which take up
mineral nutrients from the soil and exchange them with plants for photosynthetically fixed …

Mining activities generally decrease topsoil and vegetation, reduce soil biodiversity, and
yield extremely harsh environmental conditions, which in turn limit natural revegetation and …

Glutamine synthetase assimilates ammonium into amino acids, thus it is a key enzyme for
nitrogen metabolism. The cytosolic isoenzymes of glutamine synthetase assimilate …