Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

GED Oldroyd - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Plants associate with a wide range of microorganisms, with both detrimental and beneficial
outcomes. Central to plant survival is the ability to recognize invading microorganisms and …

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 …

Plant signaling and metabolic pathways enabling arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

AM MacLean, A Bravo, MJ Harrison - The Plant Cell, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Plants have lived in close association with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi for over 400
million years. Today, this endosymbiosis occurs broadly in the plant kingdom where it has a …

Comparative genomics of the nonlegume Parasponia reveals insights into evolution of nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbioses

R Van Velzen, R Holmer, F Bu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Nodules harboring nitrogen-fixing rhizobia are a well-known trait of legumes, but nodules
also occur in other plant lineages, with rhizobia or the actinomycete Frankia as …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the arbuscule at the heart of endomycorrhizal symbioses in plants

LH Luginbuehl, GED Oldroyd - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form associations with most land plants and facilitate nutrient
uptake from the soil, with the plant receiving mineral nutrients from the fungus and in return …

[HTML][HTML] CYCLOPS, a DNA-binding transcriptional activator, orchestrates symbiotic root nodule development

S Singh, K Katzer, J Lambert, M Cerri, M Parniske - Cell host & microbe, 2014 - cell.com
Nuclear calcium oscillations are a hallmark of symbiotically stimulated plant root cells.
Activation of the central nuclear decoder, calcium-and calmodulin-dependent kinase …

[HTML][HTML] Getting to the roots of it: genetic and hormonal control of root architecture

JKH Jung, S McCouch - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Root system architecture (RSA)–the spatial configuration of a root system–is an important
developmental and agronomic trait, with implications for overall plant architecture, growth …

Fate map of Medicago truncatula root nodules

TT Xiao, S Schilderink, S Moling, EE Deinum… - …, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Legume root nodules are induced by N-fixing rhizobium bacteria that are hosted in an
intracellular manner. These nodules are formed by reprogramming differentiated root cells …

[HTML][HTML] Are we there yet? The long walk towards the development of efficient symbiotic associations between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and non-leguminous crops

VCS Pankievicz, TB Irving, LGS Maia, JM Ané - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Nitrogen is an essential element of life, and nitrogen availability often limits crop yields.
Since the Green Revolution, massive amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers have been …

DELLA proteins regulate arbuscule formation in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

DS Floss, JG Levy… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Most flowering plants are able to form endosymbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. In
this mutualistic association, the fungus colonizes the root cortex and establishes elaborately …