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Symbiotic plant-fungi interactions stripped down to the root

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Mycorrhizal fungi live in the roots of host plants and are crucial components of all forest ecosystems. A large-scale study of fungal genomics provides new insights into the evolution of mycorrhizae and a deep exploration of mycorrhizal diversity that helps to uncover the molecular and genetic details of fungal symbiotic relationships with plants.

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Figure 1: Ectomycorrhizal fungi diversity.

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  1. Luca Venturini was in the Department of Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, and is now at the Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK.,

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  2. Massimo Delledonne is in the Department of Biotechnologies, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.,

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Venturini, L., Delledonne, M. Symbiotic plant-fungi interactions stripped down to the root. Nat Genet 47, 309–310 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3261

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