ReviewMycorrhiza2020
The distribution and evolution of fungal symbioses in ancient lineages of land plants.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.
- Light spectrum effects on huperzine A and B accumulation in axenic gametophyte cultures ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Metabarcoding Reveals Fungal Diversity in the Root and Rhizosphere ofInternational journal of microbiology · 2026Article
- Regulation of arbuscular mycorrhiza development by environmental stimuli: Many roads lead to strigolactones.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Two New Species ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association between a liverwort and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: a promising strategy for the phytoremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.Mycorrhiza · 2025Article
- Discovery of Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Mosses of the Pottiaceae Family from the Chaco Serrano (Tucumán, Argentina).Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Drastic mycorrhizal community shifts in Sceptridium ferns during the generation transition from fully mycoheterotrophic gametophytes to photosynthetic sporophytes.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- The receptor-like kinase ARK controls symbiotic balance across land plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The biology ofFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Moss and Liverwort Covers Structure Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Differently in the Icelandic Highlands.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- What can hornworts teach us?Frontiers in plant science · 2023Review
- Plant-microbe interactions that have impacted plant terrestrializations.Plant physiology · 2022Review
- Atmospheric pollution, soil nutrients and climate effects on Mucoromycota arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Beyond Photoprotection: The Multifarious Roles of Flavonoids in Plant Terrestrialization.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The potential role of Mucoromycotina 'fine root endophytes' in plant nitrogen nutrition.Physiologia plantarum · 2022Article
- Carbon for nutrient exchange between Lycopodiella inundata and Mucoromycotina fine root endophytes is unresponsive to high atmospheric COMycorrhiza · 2021Article
- Bryo-Activities: A Review on How Bryophytes Are Contributing to the Arsenal of Natural Bioactive Compounds against Fungi.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Unique and common traits in mycorrhizal symbioses.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2020Review
- Archaeosporites rhyniensis gen. et sp. nov. (Glomeromycota, Archaeosporaceae) from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert: a fungal lineage morphologically unchanged for more than 400 million years.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- Prevalence and phenology of fine root endophyte colonization across populations of Lycopodiella inundata.Mycorrhiza · 2020Article
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Abstract
An accurate understanding of the diversity and distribution of fungal symbioses in land plants is essential for mycorrhizal research. Here we update the seminal work of Wang and Qiu (Mycorrhiza 16:299-363, 2006) with a long-overdue focus on early-diverging land plant lineages, which were considerably under-represented in their survey, by examining the published literature to compile data on the status of fungal symbioses in liverworts, hornworts and lycophytes. Our survey combines data from 84 publications, including recent, post-2006, reports of Mucoromycotina associations in these lineages, to produce a list of at least 591 species with known fungal symbiosis status, 180 of which were included in Wang and Qiu (Mycorrhiza 16:299-363, 2006). Using this up-to-date compilation, we estimate that fewer than 30% of liverwort species engage in symbiosis with fungi belonging to all three mycorrhizal phyla, Mucoromycota, Basidiomycota and Ascomycota, with the last being the most widespread (17%). Fungal symbioses in hornworts (78%) and lycophytes (up to 100%) appear to be more common but involve only members of the two Mucoromycota subphyla Mucoromycotina and Glomeromycotina, with Glomeromycotina prevailing in both plant groups. Our fungal symbiosis occurrence estimates are considerably more conservative than those published previously, but they too may represent overestimates due to currently unavoidable assumptions.
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