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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce growth and infect roots of the non-host plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 Nov 2013
Veiga Rita S L, Faccio Antonella, Genre Andrea, Pieterse Corné M J, Bonfante Paola, van der Heijden Marcel G A
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The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis is widespread throughout the plant kingdom and important for plant nutrition and ecosystem functioning. Nonetheless, most terrestrial ecosystems also contain a considerable number of non-mycorrhizal plants. The interaction of such non-host plants with AM fungi (AMF) is still poorly understood. Here, in three complementary experiments, we investigated whether the...
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