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Inter-plant communication through mycorrhizal networks mediates complex adaptive behaviour in plant communities.
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- A Potential Role for Common Mycorrhizal Networks (CMNs) in Mediating Response Strategies and Signaling Between Different Plant Combinations Under Salt Stress.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A Consensus Statement for Ecological Medicine: Moving Toward Connection-Based Medicine.EcoHealth · 2026Article
- Recovery of Extra-Radical Fungal Peptides Amenable for Shotgun Protein Profiling in Arbuscular Mycorrhizae.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Phytomycobiomes and Ecosystem Services: Mechanisms, Evidence and Routes to Application.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Fungus Among Us: Innovations and Applications of Mycelium-Based Composites.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The evolution of signaling and monitoring in plant-fungal networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Community composition of phytopathogenic fungi significantly influences ectomycorrhizal fungal communities during subtropical forest succession.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Early Pennsylvanian Lagerstätte reveals a diverse ecosystem on a subhumid, alluvial fan.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web.Nature plants · 2024Review
- Sustainable Development versus Extractivist Deforestation in Tropical, Subtropical, and Boreal Forest Ecosystems: Repercussions and Controversies about the Mother Tree and the Mycorrhizal Network Hypothesis.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Common mycorrhizal network: the predominant socialist and capitalist responses of possible plant-plant and plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- An overview of symbiotic and pathogenic interactions at the fungi-plant interface under environmental constraints.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2024Review
- Microbes, macrophages, and melanin: a unifying theory of disease as exemplified by cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Following the Principles of the Universe: Lessons from Plants on Individual and Communal Thriving.Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
- Smart Farm Security by Combining IoT Sensor Network and Virtualized Mycelium Network.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Adaptive behaviour of plants, including rapid changes in physiology, gene regulation and defence response, can be altered when linked to neighbouring plants by a mycorrhizal network (MN). Mechanisms underlying the behavioural changes include mycorrhizal fungal colonization by the MN or interplant communication via transfer of nutrients, defence signals or allelochemicals. We focus this review on our new findings in ectomycorrhizal ecosystems, and also review recent advances in arbuscular mycorrhizal systems. We have found that the behavioural changes in ectomycorrhizal plants depend on environmental cues, the identity of the plant neighbour and the characteristics of the MN. The hierarchical integration of this phenomenon with other biological networks at broader scales in forest ecosystems, and the consequences we have observed when it is interrupted, indicate that underground 'tree talk' is a foundational process in the complex adaptive nature of forest ecosystems.
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