ReviewFrontiers in plant science2019
Digging Deeper: In Search of the Mechanisms of Carbon and Nitrogen Exchange in Ectomycorrhizal Symbioses.
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- N matters: Insights into nitrogen assimilation from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria bicolor.Plant physiology · 2025Article
- A Model of the Ectomycorrhizal Contribution to Forest Soil C and N Dynamics and Tree N Supply Within the EFIMOD3 Model System.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Role of ectomycorrhizal colonization in enhancement of nutrients for survival of plants collected from mountainous cold stress areas.BMC microbiology · 2024Article
- Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web.Nature plants · 2024Review
- An overview of symbiotic and pathogenic interactions at the fungi-plant interface under environmental constraints.Frontiers in fungal biology · 2024Review
- Exploring the potential of endophyte-plant interactions for improving crop sustainable yields in a changing climate.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
- Mycorrhizal C/N ratio determines plant-derived carbon and nitrogen allocation to symbiosis.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Interactions with microbial consortia have variable effects in organic carbon and production of exometabolites among genotypes ofPlant direct · 2023Article
- Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- A Fine-Tuning of the Plant Hormones, Polyamines and Osmolytes by Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Enhances Drought Tolerance in Pedunculate Oak.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Acquisition of host-derived carbon in biomass of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus microcarpus is correlated to fungal carbon demand and plant defences.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Ectomycorrhizal Fungi, Nitrogen Deposition, and Pinus massoniana Seedling Nitrogen Transporter Gene Expression and Nitrogen Uptake Kinetics.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Nitrogen Acquisition and Transport in the Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis-Insights from the Interaction between an Oak Tree andPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The air mycobiome is decoupled from the soil mycobiome in the California San Joaquin Valley.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Symbiosis with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi is an advantageous partnership for trees in nutrient-limited environments. Ectomycorrhizal fungi colonize the roots of their hosts and improve their access to nutrients, usually nitrogen (N) and, in exchange, trees deliver a significant portion of their photosynthetic carbon (C) to the fungi. This nutrient exchange affects key soil processes and nutrient cycling, as well as plant health, and is therefore central to forest ecosystem functioning. Due to their ecological importance, there is a need to more accurately understand ECM fungal mediated C and N movement within forest ecosystems such that we can better model and predict their role in soil processes both now and under future climate scenarios. There are a number of hurdles that we must overcome, however, before this is achievable such as understanding how the evolutionary history of ECM fungi and their inter- and intra- species variability affect their function. Further, there is currently no generally accepted universal mechanism that appears to govern the flux of nutrients between fungal and plant partners. Here, we consider the current state of knowledge on N acquisition and transport by ECM fungi and how C and N exchange may be related or affected by environmental conditions such as N availability. We emphasize the role that modern genomic analysis, molecular biology techniques and more comprehensive and standardized experimental designs may have in bringing cohesion to the numerous ecological studies in this area and assist us in better understanding this important symbiosis. These approaches will help to build unified models of nutrient exchange and develop diagnostic tools to study these fungi at various scales and environments.
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