Arbuscular mycorrhizal ( We employed the The greatest rates (and incidences) of growth and dieback occurred between noon and 18:00 h. Growth and dieback events often occurred simultaneously and were tightly coupled with soil temperature and moisture, suggesting a rapid acclimation of the external phase of Changes in the environmental conditions and variability of the mycorrhizosphere may alter the diurnal patterns of productivity of
Glomeromycotina is a lineage of early diverging fungi that establish arbuscular mycorrhizal ( We compared the genomes of Glomerales ( Genomic features in Glomeromycotina appear to be very similar with a very high content in transposons and protein‐coding genes, extensive duplications of protein kinase genes, and loss of genes coding for lignocellulose degradation, thiamin biosynthesis and cytosolic fatty acid synthase. Most symbiosis‐related genes in The high interspecific diversity of Glomeromycotina gene repertoires, affecting all known protein domains, as well as symbiosis‐related orphan genes, may explain the known adaptation of Glomeromycotina to a wide range of environmental settings. Our findings contribute to an increasingly detailed portrait of genomic features defining the biology of
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10460009
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- Wiley-Blackwell
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- New Phytologist
- Volume:
- 222
- Issue:
- 3
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- 0028-646X
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- p. 1584-1598
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