Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suppresses initiation of haustoria in the root hemiparasite Pedicularis tricolor | Zendy

Airong Li | Zendy; Sally E. Smith | Zendy; F. A. SMITH | Zendy; Kaiyun Guan | Zendy

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Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suppresses initiation of haustoria in the root hemiparasite Pedicularis tricolor

Author(s) -

Airong Li,

Sally E. Smith,

F. A. SMITH,

Kaiyun Guan

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcs028

Subject(s) - haustorium , biology , glomus , parasitic plant , botany , hordeum vulgare , parasitism , host (biology) , symbiosis , spore , poaceae , ecology , bacteria , genetics

Plant parasitism and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations have many parallels and share a number of regulatory pathways. Despite a rapid increase in investigations addressing the roles of AM fungi in regulating interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts, few studies have tested the effect of AM fungi on the initiation and differentiation of haustoria, the parasite-specific structures exclusively responsible for host attachment and nutrient transfer. In this study, we tested the influence of AM fungi on haustorium formation in a root hemiparasitic plant.

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