A novel plant-fungus symbiosis benefits the host without forming mycorrhizal structures

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1413-1422

  Kariman, Khalil ^a   Barker, Susan J ^a   Jost, Ricarda ^a   Finnegan, Patrick M ^a   Tibbett, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carboxylates; Fungus; High affinity phosphate transporter genes (PHT1); Hyphae; Mycorrhizal structures; Plant; Rhizosphere; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHORUS; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOXYLATES; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EUCALYPTUS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH-AFFINITY PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER GENES (PHT1); HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; MYCORRHIZAL STRUCTURES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

CARBOXYLATES; FUNGUS; HIGH-AFFINITY PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER GENES (PHT1); HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAL STRUCTURES; PLANT; RHIZOSPHERE; SYMBIOSIS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; EUCALYPTUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT SHOOTS; RHIZOSPHERE; RNA, MESSENGER; SOIL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84895066958     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12600     Document Type: Article

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