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ArticleNature plants2025

Arbuscular mycorrhizal association regulates global root-seed coordination.

Qingpei Yang, Binglin Guo, Mingzhen Lu, Yanjie Liu, Paul Kardol, Peter B Reich, Richard D Bardgett, Johannes H C Cornelissen, Nathan J B Kraft, Sandra Díaz and 24 more

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34 authors.

Qingpei YangCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Binglin GuoCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Mingzhen LuDepartment of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Yanjie LiuKey Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3948-1246
Paul KardolDepartment of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7065-3435
Peter B ReichDepartment of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota St Paul, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4424-662X
Richard D BardgettLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5131-0127
Johannes H C CornelissenSystems Ecology, A-LIFE, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Nathan J B KraftDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Sandra DíazInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), CONICET, Córdoba, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0003-0012-4612
Ian J WrightHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8338-9143
Nianpeng HeKey Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management - Ministry of Education, Northeast Forest University, Harbin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0458-5953
J Aaron HoganDepartment of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9806-3074
Yuxin PeiCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Qinwen HanCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Zhenjiang LiCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Zheng WangCollege of Landscape Architecture and Art, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Wanqin YangSchool of Life Sciences, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.
Junxiang DingCollege of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
Zhongling YangSchool of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6346-1582
Huifang WuCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Carlos P CarmonaInstitute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID 0000-0001-6935-4913
Oscar J Valverde-BarrantesInternational Center of Tropical Botany, Institute of Environment, Department of Biology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7327-7647
Dezhu LiCenter for Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Research and College of Forestry, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4990-724X
Jie CaiGermplasm Bank of Wild Species and Yunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.
Hui ZengCollege of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yue ZhangCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Weizheng RenCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Yong ZhaoCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Xitian YangCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Guoqiang FanCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Junjian WangState Key Laboratory of Soil Pollution Control and Safety, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. wangjj@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-3040-0924
Guoyong LiSchool of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, China. ligy535@henu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-0932-4063
Deliang KongCollege of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China. deliangkong1999@126.com.ORCID 0000-0002-3418-3787

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Terrestrial plants exhibit immense variation in their form and function among species. Coordination between resource acquisition by roots and reproduction through seeds could promote the fitness of plant populations. How root and seed traits covary has remained unclear until our analysis of the largest-ever compiled joint global dataset of root traits and seed mass. Here we demonstrate that seed mass and seed phosphorus mass scale positively with root diameter in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) plants, depending on variation in root cortical thickness instead of root vessel size. These findings suggest a dual role of AM association in phosphorus uptake and pathogen resistance which drives the global root-seed coordination, instead of initially expected resource transport via root vessels as the main driver. In contrast, we found no relationship between root traits and seed mass in ectomycorrhizal plants. Overall, our study reveals coordination between roots and seeds in AM plants, which is probably regulated by root-mycorrhizal symbiosis, and may be crucial in shaping global plant diversity and species distributions.

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