The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application

FM Martin, MGA van Der Heijden - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mycorrhizal symbioses between plants and fungi are vital for the soil structure, nutrient
cycling, plant diversity, and ecosystem sustainability. More than 250 000 plant species are …

At the core of the endomycorrhizal symbioses: intracellular fungal structures in orchid and arbuscular mycorrhiza

S Perotto, R Balestrini - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Arbuscular (AM) and orchid (OrM) mycorrhiza are the most widespread mycorrhizal
symbioses among flowering plants, formed by distinct fungal and plant species. They are …

Genomic factors shape carbon and nitrogen metabolic niche breadth across Saccharomycotina yeasts

DA Opulente, AL LaBella, MC Harrison, JF Wolters… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Organisms exhibit extensive variation in ecological niche breadth, from very narrow
(specialists) to very broad (generalists). Two general paradigms have been proposed to …

Metatranscriptomics sheds light on the links between the functional traits of fungal guilds and ecological processes in forest soil ecosystems

L Auer, M Buée, L Fauchery, V Lombard… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil fungi belonging to different functional guilds, such as saprotrophs, pathogens, and
mycorrhizal symbionts, play key roles in forest ecosystems. To date, no study has compared …

[HTML][HTML] The structural repertoire of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici effectors revealed by experimental and computational studies

SY Daniel, MA Outram, A Smith, CL McCombe… - elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Plant pathogens secrete proteins, known as effectors, that function in the apoplast or inside
plant cells to promote virulence. Effector recognition by cell-surface or cytosolic receptors …

Family matters inside the order Agaricales: systematic reorganization and classification of incertae sedis clitocyboid, pleurotoid and tricholomatoid taxa based on an …

A Vizzini, P Alvarado, G Consiglio… - Studies in …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
The phylogenetic position of several clitocyboid/pleurotoid/tricholomatoid genera previously
consideredincertae sedis is here resolved using an updated 6-gene dataset of Agaricales …

[HTML][HTML] Root-associated helotiales fungi: Overlooked players in plant nutrition

P Bruyant, Y Moënne-Loccoz, J Almario - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Fungi contribute to plant mineral nutrition through diverse symbiotic mycorrhizal
associations. Although historically most attention has been put on Glomeromycotina fungi …

Evolutionary and ecological forces shape nutrient strategies of mycorrhizal woody plants

L Guo, M Deng, X Li, B Schmid, J Huang, Y Wu… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The associations of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) or ectomycorrhiza (EcM) fungi with plants
have sequentially evolved and significantly contributed to enhancing plant nutrition …

The evolution of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in the Late Cretaceous is a key driver of explosive diversification in Agaricomycetes

H Sato - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) symbiosis, a ubiquitous plant–fungus interaction in forests, evolved in
parallel in fungi. Why the evolution of EcM fungi did not necessarily increase ecological …

Complex eigenvalue instantons and the Fredholm determinant expansion in the Gross-Witten-Wadia model

DS Eniceicu, R Mahajan, C Murdia - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study the leading nonperturbative corrections to the strong-coupling
(ungapped) phase of the Gross-Witten-Wadia (GWW) integral over unitary matrices, to one …