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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence host infection during epidemics in a wild plant pathosystem.
The New phytologist - 1 Dec 2022
Eck Jenalle L, Kytöviita Minna-Maarit, Laine Anna-Liisa
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While pathogenic and mutualistic microbes are ubiquitous across ecosystems and often co-occur within hosts, how they interact to determine patterns of disease in genetically diverse wild populations is unknown. To test whether microbial mutualists provide protection against pathogens, and whether this varies among host genotypes, we conducted a field experiment in three naturally occurring epidemics of a fungal...
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