Phosphorus acquisition efficiency in arbuscular mycorrhizal maize is correlated with the abundance of root-external hyphae and the accumulation of transcripts encoding PHT1 phosphate transporters

New Phytologist

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 632-643

  Sawers, Ruairidh J H ^a,b   Svane, Simon F ^c,d   Quan, Clement ^e   Grønlund, Mette ^c,d   Wozniak, Barbara ^b   Gebreselassie, Mesfin Nigussie ^b   González Muñoz, Eliécer ^a   Chávez Montes, Ricardo A ^a   Baxter, Ivan ^f   Goudet, Jerome ^b   Jakobsen, Iver ^c,d   Paszkowski, Uta ^b,e  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM); maize; phosphorus; PHT1; root external hyphae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MAIZE; MINERAL RESOURCE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT PROTEIN;

BIOMASS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT ROOT;

BIOMASS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYPHAE; MYCORRHIZAE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, MESSENGER; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85015809451     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14403     Document Type: Article

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