Carbon availability triggers fungal nitrogen uptake and transport in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2666-2671

  Fellbaum, Carl R ^a   Gachomo, Emma W ^a,b   Beesetty, Yugandhar ^b   Choudhari, Sulbha ^b   Strahan, Gary D ^c   Pfeffer, Philip E ^c   Kiers, E Toby ^d   Bücking, Heike ^a,b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Arginine catabolism; Carbon transport; Glomus intraradices; Urea cycle

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ARGINASE; CARBON; NITROGEN; UREASE;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; CARROT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMUS IRREGULARE; MYCELIUM; NITROGEN UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPHAGUS IRREGULARIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARBON; MYCORRHIZAE; NITROGEN; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GLOMUS INTRARADICES;

EID: 84857128754     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118650109     Document Type: Article

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