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Review article2010Peer reviewed

Functional diversity in arbuscular mycorrhiza - the role of gene expression, phosphorous nutrition and symbiotic efficiency

Feddermann, Nadja; Finlay, Roger; Boller, Thomas; Elfstrand, Malin

Abstract

We suggest that differential expression of symbiosis-associated genes among different AM associations is a phenotypic response to the different fungal and plant genotypes involved and the environment they inhabit; functional diversity is therefore the rule rather than the exception and necessitates carefully replicated experiments that combine close observation of morphology, physiological traits and gene expression. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd and The British Mycological Society. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Colonization ability; Colonization morphology; Functional diversity; Glomeromycota; Plant and fungal compatibility; Symbiotic efficiency

Published in

Fungal Ecology
2010, Volume: 3, number: 1, pages: 1-8
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD