Mycorrhizae (from the Greek words for fungus and root) is a general term describing a symbiotic relationship between a soil fungus and plant root. Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners ...

Scientists use small peptides to enhance symbiosis between plants and fungi, offering a sustainable alternative to artificial fertilizers. Plant biologists discover new plant molecule, CLE16, as well ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is a particularly intimate form of symbiosis in which the plant allows the hyphae of the fungus access into its roots and even its cells. Over the course of evolution, it has ...

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on ...

Conversely, in plants transformed with an activated ... and ensuring appropriate infection thread distribution. Root nodule symbiosis occurs in the monophyletic nitrogen-fixing clade, including ...

“We show as well that the plant root microbiome is not very different from the human ... Alga Zuccaro, University of Cologne The exact mechanism driving the spatial relationship of the microbiota and ...

Mycorrhizae (from the Greek words for fungus and root) is a general term describing a symbiotic relationship between a soil fungus and plant root. Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners ...