A root hair-seeking endophytic microbe from an unusual volcanic swamp corn enhances phosphate uptake
Blog, Plant Science Research Weekly, Research, Research BlogIn plants the location of microbes to specific cell types, including endophytes, is still scarcely described in contrast with the situation in the animal kingdom. Shehata et al. describe a bacterial endophyte (Strain 3F11, possibly Enterobacter asburiae) from Zea nicaraguensis, a wild corn growing at…
Phosphorus nutrition and root-associated fungal microbiota of nonmycorrhizal Arabis alpina
Blog, Plant Science Research Weekly, Research, Research BlogAssociations with mycorrhizal fungi greatly enhance phosphorus (P) uptake for most plants, but the Brassicaceae are nonmycorrhizal due to the loss of essential symbiosis genes. Almario et al. investigated the fungal microbiota of Arabis alpina, a Brassicaceae species that grows in very-low P soils. The…