Record ID No. |
6037 |
Author(s) |
Keymer A.* and Gutjahr C.** , 2018 |
Affiliation |
*Faculty of Biology, Genetics, LMU Munich, Biocenter Martinsried, Großhaderner Str. 2–4, 82152 Martinsried, Germany. **Plant Genetics, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Emil Ramann Str. 4, 85354 Freising, Germ |
Title |
Cross-Kingdom lipid transfer in arbsucular mycorrhiza symbiosis and beyond. |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 44: 137-144. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Biochemistry Biological Interaction Ecology |
Host |
NA |
Organism |
NA |
Country |
Germany |
Abstracts |
Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) is a widespread symbiosis between most land plants and fungi of the Glomeromycotina, which has existed for more than 400 million years. AM fungi (AMF) improve plant nutrition with mineral nutrients and conversely, their growth and development is fueled by organic carbon supplied from their host. Recent studies demonstrated independently and with different experimental approaches that lipids are transferred from plants to fungi in addition to sugars, and that AMF are dependent on this lipid supply because they lack genes encoding fatty acid synthase I subunits. Dependence on host lipids or lipid parasitism occur in a range of interorganismic associations with participants from almost all kingdoms. Thus, these phenomena seem rather common in mutualistic and parasitic interactions. |