ArticleNature communications2024
Phytophagy impacts the quality and quantity of plant carbon resources acquired by mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
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- Integrated strategies for enhancing agrifood productivity, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and improving soil health.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2025Review
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mediate leaf sugar profile in water-stressed trifoliate orange.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Effects of water-saving irrigation on microbial community structures, assembly, and metabolic activities in alfalfa rhizosphere soils.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025Article
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- Plant-fungus synergy against soil salinity: The cellular and molecular role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.iScience · 2025Review
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- Diet-regulated transcriptional plasticity of plant parasites in plant-mutualist environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Common mycorrhizal networks enhance defense responses against pathogens in neighboring plants.iMetaOmics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi associate with the roots of many plant species, enhancing their hosts access to soil nutrients whilst obtaining their carbon supply directly as photosynthates. AM fungi often face competition for plant carbon from other organisms. The mechanisms by which plants prioritise carbon allocation to mutualistic AM fungi over parasitic symbionts remain poorly understood. Here, we show that host potato plants (Solanum tuberosum cv. Désirée) selectively allocate carbon resources to tissues interacting with AM fungi rather than those interacting with phytophagous parasites (the nematode Globodera pallida). We found that plants reduce the supply of hexoses but maintain the flow of plant-derived fatty acids to AM fungi when concurrently interacting with parasites. Transcriptomic analysis suggest that plants prioritise carbon transfer to AM fungi by maintaining expression of fatty acid biosynthesis and transportation pathways, whilst decreasing the expression of mycorrhizal-induced hexose transporters. We also report similar findings from a different plant host species (Medicago truncatula) and phytophagous pest (the aphid Myzus persicae). These findings suggest a general mechanism of plant-driven resource allocation in scenarios involving multiple symbionts.
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