Unique and common traits in mycorrhizal symbioses

A Genre, L Lanfranco, S Perotto… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Mycorrhizas are among the most important biological interkingdom interactions, as they
involve~ 340,000 land plants and~ 50,000 taxa of soil fungi. In these mutually beneficial …

Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes

PM Delaux, S Schornack - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Microbial interactions have shaped plant diversity in terrestrial ecosystems.
By forming mutually beneficial symbioses, microbes helped plants colonize land more than …

[HTML][HTML] What are the 100 most cited fungal genera?

CS Bhunjun, YJ Chen, C Phukhamsakda… - Studies in …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

A critical review on communication mechanism within plant-endophytic fungi interactions to cope with biotic and abiotic stresses

H Lu, T Wei, H Lou, X Shu, Q Chen - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Endophytic fungi infect plant tissues by evading the immune response, potentially
stimulating stress-tolerant plant growth. The plant selectively allows microbial colonization to …

Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization

MK Rich, N Vigneron, C Libourel, J Keller, L Xue… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 …

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

BJ Harris, JW Clark, D Schrempf, GJ Szöllősi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals

K Kodama, MK Rich, A Yoda, S Shimazaki… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In flowering plants, strigolactones (SLs) have dual functions as hormones that regulate
growth and development, and as rhizosphere signaling molecules that induce symbiosis …

The origin of a land flora

JL Bowman - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of a land flora fundamentally shifted the course of evolution of life on earth,
facilitating terrestrialization of other eukaryotic lineages and altering the planet's geology …

[HTML][HTML] Are legumes different? Origins and consequences of evolving nitrogen fixing symbioses

U Mathesius - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Nitrogen fixing symbioses between plants and bacteria are ancient and, while not
numerous, are formed in diverse lineages of plants ranging from microalgae to …

Symbiosis between cyanobacteria and plants: from molecular studies to agronomic applications

C Álvarez, L Jiménez-Ríos… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria from the order Nostocales are able to establish symbiotic
relationships with diverse plant species. They are promiscuous symbionts, as the same …