The study of the role that fungi have played and are playing in fundamental geological
processes can be termed 'geomycology'and this article seeks to emphasize the fundamental …

Human activities generate wastes, some of which contain large amounts of heavy
metals/metalloids that could enter natural ecosystems and alter the activities and functioning …

High concentrations of heavy metals in soil have an adverse effect on micro-organisms and
microbial processes. Among soil microorganisms, mycorrhizal fungi are the only ones …

Cadmium (Cd)-contaminated rice imposes severe health risks to human. The present study
investigated the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in sculpting the rhizospheric …

Introduction Heavy metal pollution is a strong driver of above-and belowground communities
and triggers evolutionary adaptation in organisms. This review provides an overview of our …

Publisher Summary This chapter has attempted to synthesize the available literature on
mycorrhizal fungi-host plant adaptation to metal-contaminated soils in order to draw …

The growth of whole plants or of plant parts is frequently used as an easily measurable
parameter to monitor the effects of various stressors. Growth changes are often the first and …

Soil contamination is a major environmental problem affecting human health worldwide. A
sustainable solution for this contamination is phytoremediation, a technique that has gotten …

Natural populations thriving in heavy-metal-contaminated ecosystems are often subjected to
selective pressures for increased resistance to toxic metals. In the present study we describe …

Current models of the evolution and maintenance of mutualism stress the importance of
vertical transmission and the genetic uniformity of symbionts to evolutionary stability. Here …