Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

This study shows that common mycelial networks mediate inter-plant signals that influence biotic stress responses and pathogen defense, independent of mycelial damage.

This study uses X-ray CT to quantify how AMF and PCN affect root system architecture in tomato and potato plants, showing additive effects of beneficial and pathogenic soil biota.

The paper investigates how plant-soil feedback persists after host death and influences seedling competition, finding microbial legacies shape density-dependent competition in a subtropical forest.

The paper investigates soil fungal communities under different tree species, finding that ash trees support unique and at-risk fungal communities.

This study constructs a spatiotemporal single-cell atlas of soybean AMF symbiosis, revealing immune, metabolic, and nutrient exchange programs and a coumarin-driven metabolic switch.

This study shows how rock geochemistry influences root architectural strategies in plants, with mycorrhizal fungi altering investment between root types based on substrate composition.

The paper examines how different spatial patterns of salmon-derived nitrogen affect fungal community diversity and function in riparian systems.

This study shows that arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis improves drought resistance in argan trees by enhancing water relations and photosynthetic efficiency.

This study examines how mango trees affect soil properties and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) communities in maize and cassava agroforestry systems in southern Ethiopia, finding that host type and soil nutrients, rather than proximity to mango trees, drive AMF community composition and diversity.

This study uses single-nucleus transcriptomics to identify stage-specific transcriptional programs in tomato roots colonized by Rhizophagus irregularis, revealing key regulatory factors and cellular responses during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.

This paper demonstrates the value of fungal trait-based phenotyping in microbiome research by analyzing four case studies and introduces q2-fungal-traits, a QIIME2 plugin for integrating fungal taxonomy with ecological and functional traits.

The paper uses a decade of sporocarp observations to identify temperature and precipitation triggers for Boletus edulis fruiting in central European beech forests.

The paper investigates how nitrogen deposition affects phosphorus-efficient ectomycorrhizal fungi in Scots pine forests across Europe, finding species-specific traits drive community shifts and nutrient cycling.

The paper uses metabolic modeling to predict growth benefits of combining arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and hypothetical N2-fixing rhizobia in maize, finding synergies under nutrient limitation and antagonism under nutrient sufficiency.

This study measures carbon exudation rates in 11 tree species to explore how plant functional groups and root traits influence exudation patterns.

MycorrhizaFinder is a machine learning tool that quantifies endomycorrhizal colonisation in roots, achieving 66% and 57% Macro F1 scores for arbuscular and ericoid mycorrhizal assessments respectively.

EMITS improves fungal ITS abundance estimation using expectation-maximization, outperforming naive counting and EMU in resolving closely related species and reducing errors.

This study shows that overactive CCaMK in rice restores AM symbiosis in d14l mutants but not mesocotyl elongation, revealing distinct roles for D14L in development and symbiosis.

The paper identifies VIH2 in Lotus japonicus as an inositol pyrophosphate synthase that regulates arbuscular mycorrhiza by linking phosphate starvation responses to root endosymbiosis.

The paper examines how oak tree mortality affects deep soil microbial communities and carbon storage, finding reduced ectomycorrhizal fungi and depth-dependent microbial function shifts, but no change in total carbon.

This study shows that recreational climbing alters cliff soil chemistry and plant-associated fungal communities, with potential impacts on plant function and ecosystem resilience.

The paper reorganizes the Corymbiglomeraceae family, describes new taxa in Diversisporales, and maps their distribution using eDNA sequences.

This study shows that ectomycorrhizal networks can propagate carbon deficits and drought stress among trees by depleting non-structural carbohydrates in connected trees.

This study uses spatial transcriptomics and TRAP-seq to analyze gene expression dynamics in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, revealing spatiotemporal regulation of nutrient exchange and defense responses.

The paper examines how tree diversity affects microbial investment in nutrient-acquiring enzymes in soil, finding increased investment in nitrogen and phosphorus acquisition with higher tree species richness.

The paper shows that KAI2 signaling is not essential for AM symbiosis in all angiosperms, with some species showing only quantitative effects.

The paper investigates how heatwave conditions affect bacterial-fungal interactions, finding no temperature effect on interaction strength but fungal acidification inhibiting bacteria.

The paper develops a 3D carbon-nutrient model for roots, validated with global data, showing how root length and cortical area relate to nutrient strategies in woody and herbaceous species.

This study shows that the seasonal assembly of the fungal microbiome on grass leaves is robust to nutrient addition, with diversity increasing early in the season and nutrient effects being less significant than seasonal changes.

This study examines how Sorghum bicolor genotypes and environmental factors shape arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities across different land use and climate conditions.