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Medicago truncatula mtpt4 mutants reveal a role for nitrogen in the regulation of arbuscule degeneration in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Dec 2011
Javot Hélène, Penmetsa R Varma, Breuillin Florence, Bhattarai Kishor K, Noar Roslyn D, Gomez S Karen, Zhang Quan, Cook Douglas R, Harrison Maria J
Abstract excerpt
Plants acquire essential mineral nutrients such as phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) directly from the soil, but the majority of the vascular plants also gain access to these mineral nutrients through endosymbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. In AM symbiosis, the fungi deliver P and N to the root through branched hyphae called arbuscules. Previously we identified MtPT4, a Medicago...
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