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The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis influences sulfur starvation responses of Medicago truncatula.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2013
Sieh Daniela, Watanabe Mutsumi, Devers Emanuel A, Brueckner Franziska, Hoefgen Rainer, Krajinski Franziska
Abstract excerpt
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is a mutualistic interaction that occurs between the large majority of vascular plants and fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. In addition to other nutrients, sulfur compounds are symbiotically transferred from AM fungus to host plants; however, the physiological importance of mycorrhizal-mediated sulfur for plant metabolism has not yet been determined. We applied different...
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