ArticleThe ISME journal2014
Rapid genotypic change and plasticity in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is caused by a host shift and enhanced by segregation.
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- Stochastic nuclear organization and host-dependent allele contribution in Rhizophagus irregularis.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Effects of Conventional and Organic Agriculture on Soil Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Community in Low-Quality Farmland.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- RocTest: A standardized method to assess the performance of root organ cultures in the propagation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Gene by Environment Interactions reveal new regulatory aspects of signaling network plasticity.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Generation of unequal nuclear genotype proportions in Rhizophagus irregularis progeny causes allelic imbalance in gene transcription.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2020Article
- Nestedness in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in a Volcanic Ecosystem: Selection of Disturbance-tolerant Fungi along an Elevation Gradient.Microbes and environments · 2019Article
- Isolation of Native Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi within Young Thalli of the LiverwortPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Maize varieties can strengthen positive plant-soil feedback through beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal mutualists.Mycorrhiza · 2019Article
- Dual RNA-seq reveals large-scale non-conserved genotype × genotype-specific genetic reprograming and molecular crosstalk in the mycorrhizal symbiosis.The ISME journal · 2019Article
- Evolutionary maintenance of genomic diversity within arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Herbivore removal reduces influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth and tolerance in an East African savanna.Oecologia · 2018Article
- Beneficial Services of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi - From Ecology to Application.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
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Abstract
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are among the most abundant symbionts of plants, improving plant productivity and diversity. They are thought to mostly grow vegetatively, a trait assumed to limit adaptability. However, AMF can also harbor genetically different nuclei (nucleotypes). It has been shown that one AMF can produce genotypically novel offspring with proportions of different nucleotypes. We hypothesized that (1) AMF respond rapidly to a change of environment (plant host) through changes in the frequency of nucleotypes; (2) genotypically novel offspring exhibit different genetic responses to environmental change than the parent; and (3) genotypically novel offspring exhibit a wide range of phenotypic plasticity to a change of environment. We subjected AMF parents and offspring to a host shift. We observed rapid and large genotypic changes in all AMF lines that were not random. Genotypic and phenotypic responses were different among offspring and their parents. Even though growing vegetatively, AMF offspring display a broad range of genotypic and phenotypic changes in response to host shift. We conclude that AMF have the ability to rapidly produce variable progeny, increasing their probability to produce offspring with different fitness than their parents and, consequently, their potential adaptability to new environmental conditions. Such genotypic and phenotypic flexibility could be a fast alternative to sexual reproduction and is likely to be a key to the ecological success of AMF.
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