Fresh perspectives on the roles of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant nutrition and growth

Mycologia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally E. Smith ◽  
F. Andrew Smith
Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 372 (6544) ◽  
pp. 864-868
Author(s):  
Mélanie K. Rich ◽  
Nicolas Vigneron ◽  
Cyril Libourel ◽  
Jean Keller ◽  
Li Xue ◽  
...  

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. Here, we identify a conserved transcriptomic response to AMF among land plants, including the activation of lipid metabolism. Using gain of function, we show the transfer of lipids from the liverwort Marchantia paleacea to AMF and its direct regulation by the transcription factor WRINKLED (WRI). Arbuscules, the nutrient-exchange structures, were not formed in loss-of-function wri mutants in M. paleacea, leading to aborted mutualism. Our results show the orthology of the symbiotic transfer of lipids across land plants and demonstrate that mutualism with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi was present in the most recent ancestor of land plants 450 million years ago.


2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1405-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Luiz Souchie ◽  
Rosario Azcón ◽  
Jose Miguel Barea ◽  
Orivaldo José Saggin-Júnior ◽  
Eliane Maria Ribeiro da Silva

The objective of this work was to evaluate the ability of several P-solubilizing fungi to solubilize aluminum phosphate and Araxá apatite as well as the synergism between the P-solubilizing fungus, PSF 7, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to promote clover growth amended with aluminum phosphate. Two experiments were carried out, the first under laboratory conditions and the second in a controlled environmental chamber. In the first experiment, PSF 7, PSF 9, PSF 21 and PSF 22 isolates plus control were incubated in liquid medium at 28ºC for eight days. On the 2nd, 4th and 8th day of incubation, pH and soluble P were determined. In the second experiment, clover was sowed in plastic pots containing 300 g of sterilized substrate amended with aluminum phosphate, 3 g L-1, in presence and absence of PSF 7 isolate and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. A completely randomized design, in factorial outline 2x2 (presence and absence of PSF 7 and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) and five replicates were used. In the first experiment, higher P content was detected in the medium containing aluminum phosphate. PSF 7 is the best fungi isolate which increases aluminum solubilization with major tolerance to Al3+. Clover growth was stimulated by presence of PSF 7 and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. There is synergism between microorganisms utilized to improve plant nutrition.


Author(s):  
Mehraj ud din Khanday ◽  
Rouf Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Shamsul Haq ◽  
Moonisa Aslam Dervash ◽  
Asma Absar Bhatti ◽  
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