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Successful joint ventures of plants: arbuscular mycorrhiza and beyond.
Trends in plant science - 1 Jul 2011
Ercolin Flavia, Reinhardt Didier
Abstract excerpt
Among the oldest symbiotic associations of plants are arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) with fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. Although many of the symbiotic signaling components have been identified on the side of the plant, AM fungi have long evaded genetic analysis owing to their strict biotrophy and their exceptional genetics. Recently, the identification of the fungal symbiosis signal (Myc factor) and of a...
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