Unique and common traits in mycorrhizal symbioses

A Genre, L Lanfranco, S Perotto… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Mycorrhizas are among the most important biological interkingdom interactions, as they
involve~ 340,000 land plants and~ 50,000 taxa of soil fungi. In these mutually beneficial …

Cross-kingdom nutrient exchange in the plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus–bacterium continuum

S Duan, G Feng, E Limpens, P Bonfante… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The association between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) affects plant
performance and ecosystem functioning. Recent studies have identified AMF-associated …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as natural biofertilizers: let's benefit from past successes

A Berruti, E Lumini, R Balestrini… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) constitute a group of root obligate biotrophs that
exchange mutual benefits with about 80% of plants. They are considered natural …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as potential agents in ameliorating heavy metal stress in plants

R Dhalaria, D Kumar, H Kumar, E Nepovimova, K Kuča… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Heavy metal accumulation in plants is a severe environmental problem, rising at an
expeditious rate. Heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic, mercury and lead are known …

Co-inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria improve growth and photosynthesis in tobacco under drought stress by up …

N Begum, L Wang, H Ahmad, K Akhtar, R Roy… - Microbial ecology, 2022 - Springer
Drought stress is a major environmental concern that limits crop growth on a large scale
around the world. Significant efforts are required to overcome this issue in order to improve …

Innovation and appropriation in mycorrhizal and rhizobial symbioses

D Wang, W Dong, J Murray, E Wang - The Plant Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Most land plants benefit from endosymbiotic interactions with mycorrhizal fungi, including
legumes and some nonlegumes that also interact with endosymbiotic nitrogen (N)-fixing …

Partner communication and role of nutrients in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

L Lanfranco, V Fiorilli, C Gutjahr - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 1031 I. Introduction 1031 II. Interkingdom communication enabling
symbiosis 1032 III. Nutritional and regulatory roles for key metabolites in the AM symbiosis …

Nutrient exchange and regulation in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

W Wang, J Shi, Q Xie, Y Jiang, N Yu, E Wang - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
Most land plants form symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These
are the most common and widespread terrestrial plant symbioses, which have a global …

Roles of arbuscular mycorrhizas in plant nutrition and growth: new paradigms from cellular to ecosystem scales

SE Smith, FA Smith - Annual review of plant biology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Root systems of most land plants form arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses in the field,
and these contribute to nutrient uptake. AM roots have two pathways for nutrient absorption …

Mechanisms underlying beneficial plant–fungus interactions in mycorrhizal symbiosis

P Bonfante, A Genre - Nature communications, 2010 - nature.com
Mycorrhizal fungi are a heterogeneous group of diverse fungal taxa, associated with the
roots of over 90% of all plant species. Recently, state-of-the-art molecular and genetic tools …