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Establishment and Functioning of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas

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Plant Relationships

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 5))

Abstract

Located at the interface with the soil, plant roots are the preferred niche for many soil fungi that live in the rhizosphere as saprotrophs or are directly associated to the photosynthetic plants as symbionts. Among the latter, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi represent a vital component in plant ecosystems: they have a widespread distribution in very diverse environments (Smith and Read 2008) and are present in more than 80% of the land plants, from liverworts to ferns, from gymnosperms to angiosperms. The absence of a strict host specificity is considered a direct consequence of the long coevolutionary history which dates back to the Ordovician (460 million years ago; Remy et al. 1994), when the first land plants, without true roots but with rhizomes, were subjected to mineral nutrient deprivation and forced to associate with heterotrophic soil microbes (Brundrett 2002).

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Bonfante, P., Balestrini, R., Genre, A., Lanfranco, L. (2009). Establishment and Functioning of Arbuscular Mycorrhizas. In: Deising, H.B. (eds) Plant Relationships. The Mycota, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87407-2_14

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