Ectomycorrhizae is a symbiosis established between tree roots and soil-borne fungi. Intrinsic to temperate and boreal forest ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal symbiosis is critical for tree nutrition ...

Figure 1: The ectomycorrhizal ascomycete Cenococcum ... Figure 4: Sequence conservation and functional analysis of symbiosis-induced transcripts. In the same drought/rewatering experiment, we ...

This suggests that symbiosis drives evolution of truffle ... Truffles are the fruiting bodies of the ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal symbionts residing on host plant roots. In many Ascomycota and ...

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that loss of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis has reduced the ability of these ecosystems to sequester carbon in soils. Most plant species ...

2014. Forests trapped in nitrogen limitation: an ecological market perspective on ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.12840 Näsholm T, Högberg P, Franklin O, Metcalfe D ...

Most of the world’s tree species have a close relationship with the fungi, known as ectomycorrhizae, that grow on their roots. These form a dense network around the fine roots, supplying the trees ...

A majority of tree species depend on underground symbiotic fungi, called ectomycorrhizal fungi, for the nutrients and water they need to survive (SN: 7/13/09). Like other organisms ...