Mycorrhizal fungi as bioprotectors of crops against verticillium wilt—a hypothetical scenario under changing environmental conditions

N Goicoechea - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
The association that many crops can establish with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
present in soils can enhance the resistance of the host plants against several pathogens …

Microbe‐mediated local adaptation to limestone barrens is context dependent

RH Petipas, AC Wruck, MA Geber - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐root‐associated microbes influence plant phenotype and tolerance to environmental
stress, and thus have been hypothesized to play a role in plant local adaptation. Here, we …

Get on your boots: estimating root biomass and rhizodeposition of peas under field conditions reveals the necessity of field experiments

A Hupe, H Schulz, C Bruns, T Haase, J Heß… - Plant and Soil, 2019 - Springer
Aims More sustainable agricultural systems, which contribute to C sequestration and
biological N fixation, require accurate quantification of plant C and N inputs into soils. This …

Short-term artificial adaptation of Rhizoglomus irregulare to high phosphate levels and its implications for fungal-plant interactions: phenotypic and transcriptomic …

E Lucic-Mercy, L Mercy, A Jeschke… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a crucial role in enhancing plant growth, but their
use in agriculture is limited due to several constraints. Elevated soil phosphate levels …

The accumulation of metals, PAHs and alkyl PAHs in the roots of Echinacea purpurea

TR Pretorius, C Charest, LE Kimpe, JM Blais - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
We examined the accumulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), alkyl PAHs,
and toxic metals in soils by the roots of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench, in a 20-week …

Aphids can acquire the nitrogen delivered to plants by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

TDJ Wilkinson, J Ferrari, SE Hartley… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Above‐and below‐ground organisms can interact by altering the quality of shared host
plants. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influence plant nutrient uptake, including …

A stimulatory role for cytokinin in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis of pea

DM Goh, M Cosme, AB Kisiala, S Mulholland… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis between terrestrial plants and AM fungi is
regulated by plant hormones. For most of these, a role has been clearly assigned in this …

Cultured arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and native soil inocula improve seedling development of two pioneer trees in the Andean region

N Urgiles, A Strauß, P Loján, A Schüßler - New forests, 2014 - Springer
The tree species Alnus acuminata and Morella pubescens, native to South America, are
candidates for soil quality improvement and afforestation of degraded areas and may serve …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and metal phytoremediation: ecophysiological complementarity in relation to environmental stress

P Audet - Emerging technologies and management of crop stress …, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent investigative interests focusing on plants and their allied soil-symbionts would
suggest an important and multilateral impact of soil microbes in plant nutrient uptake and the …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal dependency and phosphorus responsiveness of released, landrace and wild Sudanese sorghum genotypes

T Abdelhalim, R Jannoura… - Archives of Agronomy …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Enhanced P acquisition efficiency and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) dependency in
sorghum are relevant for low-input agroecosystems. The objective of this work was to …