Plant symbiosis articles within Nature

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  • Article |

    Analyses of data from 137 forest plots across 20 European countries show that ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity is strongly influenced by environmental and host species factors and provide thresholds to inform ecosystem assessment tools

    • Sietse van der Linde
    • , Laura M. Suz
    •  & Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Letter |

    Analyses of a global dataset of plant root traits identify an ancestral conservative strategy based on thick roots and mycorrhizal symbiosis, and an evolutionarily more-recent opportunistic strategy of thin roots that efficiently use photosynthetic carbon for soil exploration.

    • Zeqing Ma
    • , Dali Guo
    •  & Lars O. Hedin

  • Letter |

    Fungal pathogens reorient hyphal growth towards their plant hosts in response to chemical signals; here, directed growth of the plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum towards the roots of the tomato plant is shown to be triggered by class III peroxidases secreted by the tomato plant, with the fungal response requiring a sex pheromone receptor.

    • David Turrà
    • , Mennat El Ghalid
    •  & Antonio Di Pietro

  • Article |

    This paper describes the discovery of the exopolysaccharide receptor (Epr3) in plants, and shows that its expression is induced upon perception of the bacterial Nod factors; the EPR3 receptor recognizes exopolysaccharides on the surface of rhizobia, thus controlling the symbiotic infection of the roots of legumes.

    • Y. Kawaharada
    • , S. Kelly
    •  & J. Stougaard

  • News & Views |

    The 'nested' pattern of mutualistic interactions between plants and their pollinators is thought to promote species coexistence. But the key determinant may instead be the number of partners that species have. See Letter p.227

    • Stefano Allesina

  • Article |

    Nitrogen-fixing rhizobia use lipochitooligosaccharide (LCO) signal molecules to initiate a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. Although it has been suggested that mycorrhizal fungi also secrete chemical signals for this process, the identity of these molecules was unknown. It is now shown that like rhizobia, mycorrhizal fungi produce LCOs and that these molecules are important for the establishment of the symbiotic relationship between plant root and fungus.

    • Fabienne Maillet
    • , Véréna Poinsot
    •  & Jean Dénarié

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