Arbuscular mycorrhiza articles within Nature Communications

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  27 January 2024 | Open Access

  Phytophagy impacts the quality and quantity of plant carbon resources acquired by mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

  Plant antagonists may disrupt the allocation of carbon resources from plants to mutualistic microorganisms. Here, the authors report how plants attacked by cyst nematodes and aphids maintain carbon transfer to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through fatty acid transfer whilst the limiting the loss of sugars.

  • C. A. Bell
  • , E. Magkourilou
  •  & K. J. Field

• Article
  16 September 2023 | Open Access

  Control of arbuscule development by a transcriptional negative feedback loop in Medicago

  Zhang et al. report that Medicago AR2/ERF transcription regulators WRI5a-ERM1-ERF12 form a transcriptional negative feedback loop to coordinate arbuscular lipid supply, enabling the maintenance of a stable, reciprocally beneficial symbiosis.

  • Qiang Zhang
  • , Shuangshuang Wang
  •  & Yina Jiang

• Article
  28 October 2022 | Open Access

  Nutrient regulation of lipochitooligosaccharide recognition in plants via NSP1 and NSP2

  Lipochitooligosaccharide (LCO) perception by legumes is required to establish symbiotic relationships with nitrogen fixing bacteria. Here the authors show that nutrient starvation can activate LCO perception in cereals to promote symbiotic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

  • Xin-Ran Li
  • , Jongho Sun
  •  & Giles E. D. Oldroyd

• Article
  05 September 2022 | Open Access

  Distinct ankyrin repeat subdomains control VAPYRIN locations and intracellular accommodation functions during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

  VAPYRIN is a plant protein required for symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Here the authors identify VAPYRIN domains that control subcellular targeting and protein-protein interactions and propose that VAPYRIN acts in the nucleus and cytoplasm to coordinate signaling and intracellular arbuscule accommodation.

  • Penelope L. Lindsay
  • , Sergey Ivanov
  •  & Maria J. Harrison

• Article
  08 July 2022 | Open Access

  An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals

  Strigolactones (SLs) regulate angiosperm development and promote symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizae. Here the authors show that bryosymbiol, an SL present in bryophytes and angiosperms, promotes AM symbiosis in Marchantia paleacea suggesting an ancestral function of SLs as rhizosphere signals.

  • Kyoichi Kodama
  • , Mélanie K. Rich
  •  & Junko Kyozuka

• Article
  25 January 2022 | Open Access

  PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis

  Arbuscular mycorrhiza support plant phosphate uptake. Here Das et al. show that PHR transcription factors permit arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis by promoting gene expression related to symbiosis development and maintenance.

  • Debatosh Das
  • , Michael Paries
  •  & Caroline Gutjahr

• Article
  30 April 2020 | Open Access

  The negative regulator SMAX1 controls mycorrhizal symbiosis and strigolactone biosynthesis in rice

  Signaling via the D14L karrikin receptor conditions rice roots for association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Here, Choi et al. show that SMAX1, a rice homolog of an Arabidopsis repressor of karrikin signaling, acts downstream of D14L to suppress mycorrhizal symbiosis and strigolactone biosynthesis.

  • Jeongmin Choi
  • , Tak Lee
  •  & Uta. Paszkowski

• Article
  06 November 2019 | Open Access

  A combination of chitooligosaccharide and lipochitooligosaccharide recognition promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in Medicago truncatula

  Polysaccharide molecules chitooligosaccharides (COs) and peptidoglycan not only activate plant immunity but also trigger plant symbiosis signalling. Here the authors show that a combination of COs and lipochitooligosaccharides (LCOs) act synergistically to suppress immunity and promote symbiosis to facilitate beneficial fungal associations.

  • Feng Feng
  • , Jongho Sun
  •  & Giles E. D. Oldroyd

• Article
  08 November 2018 | Open Access

  A rice Serine/Threonine receptor-like kinase regulates arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis at the peri-arbuscular membrane

  The peri-arbuscular membrane (PAM) mediates mutually-beneficial nutrient exchange between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Here the authors identify ARK1, a PAM-specific receptor-like kinase from rice that sustains AM symbiosis post-arbuscule development.

  • Ronelle Roth
  • , Marco Chiapello
  •  & Uta Paszkowski

• Article | 22 May 2014

  High specificity in plant leaf metabolic responses to arbuscular mycorrhiza

  Plant species share a core metabolome, however the extent to which metabolic responses to environmental cues are also conserved remains unclear. Schweiger et al.describe shifts in the leaf metabolomes of five plant species during mycorrhizal fungal infection, and uncover high species-specificity.

  • Rabea Schweiger
  • , Markus C. Baier
  •  & Caroline Müller

• Article | 02 November 2010

  Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

  Symbiotic fungi are thought to have assisted plants in their colonization of the land. In this study, it is shown that mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis with liverwort, a member of an ancient clade of land plants, promotes photosynthetic carbon uptake and growth, supporting the role of fungi in 'the greening of the Earth'.

  • Claire P. Humphreys
  • , Peter J. Franks
  •  & David J. Beerling