Recent Insights on Biological and Ecological Aspects of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Interactions

Frontiers in Microbiology
Antonietta Mello, Raffaella Balestrini

Abstract

The roots of most terrestrial plants are colonized by mycorrhizal fungi. They play a key role in terrestrial environments influencing soil structure and ecosystem functionality. Around them a peculiar region, the mycorrhizosphere, develops. This is a very dynamic environment where plants, soil and microorganisms interact. Interest in this fascinating environment has increased over the years. For a long period the knowledge of the microbial populations in the rhizosphere has been limited, because they have always been studied by traditional culture-based techniques. These methods, which only allow the study of cultured microorganisms, do not allow the characterization of most organisms existing in nature. The introduction in the last few years of methodologies that are independent of culture techniques has bypassed this limitation. This together with the development of high-throughput molecular tools has given new insights into the biology, evolution, and biodiversity of mycorrhizal associations, as well as, the molecular dialog between plants and fungi. The genomes of many mycorrhizal fungal species have been sequenced so far allowing to better understanding the lifestyle of these fungi, their sexual reproduction modalities and...Continue Reading

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Dec 14, 2019·Plant, Cell & Environment·Veronica BassoClaire Veneault-Fourrey
Jul 23, 2020·Nature Reviews. Microbiology·Andrea GenrePaola Bonfante
Feb 20, 2020·AoB Plants·Yingchun PeiJianqing Ding
May 5, 2021·Environmental Microbiology Reports·Pamela MonacoAntonietta Mello

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CLOTU
PLUTOF

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