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We highlight the newly emerged roles of plant SPX-PHR proteins beyond phosphate starvation responses in controlling arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization success in roots.
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RS and AR acknowledge the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and Science and Engineering Research Board, research funding institutions of Govt. of India, respectively, for their fellowships.
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This work is supported by grants from Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India (Grant No. CRG/2018/001033) and IoE, MHRD (RC1-20-018). RK acknowledges the financial support to UoH-IoE by MHRD (F11/9/2019-U3(A)). RK acknowledge assistance from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, under Funds for Infrastructure in Science and Technology (FIST), Level II, and from University Grants Commission under Special Assistance Programme (UGC-SAP-DRS-II) to the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad (UoH).
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Srivastava, R., Roychowdhury, A. & Kumar, R. Host SPX-PHR regulatory circuit: the molecular dynamo steering mycorrhization in plants. Plant Cell Rep 41, 1329–1332 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-022-02845-2
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