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Evolutionary history of plant hosts and fungal symbionts predicts the strength of mycorrhizal mutualism [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2018 AbstractMost plants engage in symbioses with mycorrhizal fungi in soils and net consequences for plants vary widely from mutualism to parasitism. However, we lack a synthetic understanding of the evolutionary and ecological forces driving such variation for this or any other nutritional symbiosis. We used meta-analysis across 646 combinations of plants
Jason D. Hoeksema +20 more
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Contemporaneous radiations of fungi and plants linked to symbiosis
Nature Communications, 2018 Plants and fungi interact widely and in diverse ways, from mutualism to parasitism and decomposition. Here, Lutzoni et al. analyse the timing of plant and fungal evolutionary radiations and identify four major periods in which plant-fungal interactions ...
François Lutzoni +13 more
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Fungiculture or Termite Husbandry? The Ruminant Hypothesis
Insects, 2012 We present a new perspective for the role of Termitomyces fungi in the mutualism with fungus-growing termites. According to the predominant view, this mutualism is as an example of agriculture with termites as farmers of a domesticated fungus crop, which
Tânia Nobre, Duur K. Aanen
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Endolichenic fungi: the lesser known fungal associates of lichens
Mycology, 2017 Lichens are the result of a stable mutualism between a fungal and a photosynthesising partner (alga or cyanobacterium). In addition to the fungal partner in this mutualism, lichens are associated with endolichenic fungi which reside inside their thalli ...
Trichur S. Suryanarayanan +1 more
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The Split Personality of Beauveria bassiana: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Fungal Parasitism and Mutualism [PDF]
mSystems, 2021 Fungal pathogenicity toward insects has independently evolved several times, resulting in specialist and generalist pathogens, some of whom have maintained aspects of their previous lifestyles. Being able to grow as an endophyte (engaging in a mutualistic interaction with plants) or saprophyte (recycling nutrients back into the environment)
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Mutualism effectiveness of a fungal endophyte in an annual grass is impaired by ozone [PDF]
Functional Ecology, 2015 Summary Ozone is an increasing tropospheric contaminant of climate change. Exposure to ozone may affect the symbiotic relationship between plants and beneficial microorganisms. In particular, the herbivore resistance mechanism conferred by fungal endophytes (defensive mutualism) may be affected, as any of the ozone‐triggered effects (such as ...
Ueno, Andrea Celeste +5 more
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The parasitic-neutral-mutual continuum of plant-fungal interactions
Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 2019 Interactions of plants with fungi are of imminent importance to crop production and thus for human nutrition. However, interactions range from pathogenic fungi, e.g. cereal rusts, to beneficial interactions with plant growth promotion through soil, endophytic or mycorrhizal fungi.
Oluwatosin Abdulsalam +2 more
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Engineering Microbial Particles for Next‐Generation Biomedical Platforms
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Microbe‐derived particles (MDPs), which include extracellular vesicles, outer membrane vesicles, inclusion bodies, polysaccharide particles, and virus‐like particles, represent a rapidly expanding category of bioinspired nanomaterials. With their natural origin, intrinsic biocompatibility, and highly programmable functionality, MDPs serve as a ...
Yuting Li +7 more
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Hummingbirds as vectors of fungal spores in Moussonia deppeana (Gesneriaceae): taking advantage of a mutualism? [PDF]
American Journal of Botany, 2003 Hummingbirds act as vectors of Fusarium moniliforme spores on protandrous flowers of Moussonia deppeana. The resulting interactions between the pathogen and plant–pollinator interactions were investigated in a 4‐yr study to determine the pathogen's impact on host flowering phenology, flower longevity, nectar production, and fruit and seed production ...
Carlos, Lara, Juan Francisco, Ornelas
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The maize BTB/POZ‐MATH (BPM) protein ZmBPM1 interacts with autophagy‐related protein ZmATG6 to relocate the NLR protein Rp1‐D21 from the nucleo‐cytoplasmic compartment into autophagosome‐like puncta, leading to autophagy‐mediated turnover and suppressing the hypersensitive response.
Chang‐Xiao Tang +8 more
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