High phosphate reduces host ability to develop arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis without affecting root calcium spiking responses to the fungus

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Balzergue, Coline ^a,c   Chabaud, Mireille ^b   Barker, David G ^b   Bécard, Guillaume ^a   Rochange, Soizic F ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Calcium spiking; Chito oligosaccharides; Molecular signaling; Mycorrhiza; Phosphate; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891561491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00426     Document Type: Article

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