Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

HJ Hawkins, RIM Cargill, ME Van Nuland, SC Hagen… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
For more than 400 million years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed partnerships that
are crucial to the emergence and functioning of global ecosystems. The importance of these …

Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss

RS Peixoto, CR Voolstra, M Sweet, CM Duarte… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global biodiversity loss and mass extinction of species are two of the most critical
environmental issues the world is currently facing, resulting in the disruption of various …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Roles of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on soil fertility: contribution in the improvement of physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil

AF Fall, G Nakabonge, J Ssekandi… - Frontiers in Fungal …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Many of the world's soils are experiencing degradation at an alarming rate. Climate change
and some agricultural management practices, such as tillage and excessive use of …

Unravelling the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in mitigating the oxidative burst of plants under drought stress

YN Zou, QS Wu, K Kuča - Plant Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With continued climate changes, soil drought stress has become the main limiting factor for
crop growth in arid and semi‐arid regions. A typical characteristic of drought stress is the …

Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization

MK Rich, N Vigneron, C Libourel, J Keller, L Xue… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) improves plant nutrition in most land
plants, and its contribution to the colonization of land by plants has been hypothesized …

An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals

K Kodama, MK Rich, A Yoda, S Shimazaki… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In flowering plants, strigolactones (SLs) have dual functions as hormones that regulate
growth and development, and as rhizosphere signaling molecules that induce symbiosis …

Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis

F Lutzoni, MD Nowak, ME Alfaro, V Reeb… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Interactions between fungi and plants, including parasitism, mutualism, and saprotrophy,
have been invoked as key to their respective macroevolutionary success. Here we evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] An ancestral signalling pathway is conserved in intracellular symbioses-forming plant lineages

GV Radhakrishnan, J Keller, MK Rich, T Vernié… - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Plants are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems, and their colonization of land was
probably facilitated by mutualistic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Following …

Friends or foes? Emerging insights from fungal interactions with plants

S Zeilinger, VK Gupta, TES Dahms… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Fungi interact with plants in various ways, with each interaction giving rise to different
alterations in both partners. While fungal pathogens have detrimental effects on plant …