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61,005 resultsShowing papers similar to The Interaction between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and Grass Endophyte (Epichloë) on Host Plants: A Review
ClearSymbiosis—A Perspective on the Effects of Host Traits and Environmental Parameters in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Richness, Colonization and Ecological Functions
This review examines how host plant traits and environmental conditions regulate the richness, diversity, and ecological functions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The study highlights how these beneficial soil fungi contribute to sustainable agriculture through improved nutrient uptake, disease control, and stress tolerance, while noting that their effectiveness depends on multiple interacting factors.
Potential Effects of Microplastic on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
This review examines how microplastics in soil affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, finding evidence that microplastics can alter fungal colonization of plant roots, spore production, and the broader soil microbiome, with cascading effects on plant nutrient uptake.
Mycorrhizal and Endophytic Fungi as a Tool for Sustainable Environments
This review examines the roles of mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi in promoting plant health and environmental sustainability, focusing on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, dark septate endophytes, and other endophytic types that interact with vascular plant roots. The authors assessed the potential of these fungal partnerships as tools for sustainable soil and ecosystem management.
Effects of microplastics on the plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiotic system: type, size, and concentration
This review examines how different types, sizes, and concentrations of microplastics affect the symbiotic relationship between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil. The study found that low microplastic concentrations may stimulate fungal colonization, while higher levels generally inhibit it, and that biodegradable microplastics and nanoplastics tend to have stronger effects on the plant-fungal system than conventional microplastics.
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Advantageous Impact on Sustainable Agroecosystems and Bridge between Plants, Soils, and Humans Health
This review discusses how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance sustainable agroecosystems by improving plant nutrient uptake, soil structure, and stress tolerance, with implications for reducing dependence on synthetic fertilizers and improving food security. The authors explore links between mycorrhizal health, soil microbiome, and human nutrition.
Physio-Biochemical Mechanisms of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Enhancing Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stress
This review explores how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, beneficial soil organisms that form partnerships with plant roots, help crops cope with environmental stresses like drought, salinity, and heavy metal contamination. The fungi improve nutrient uptake, water absorption, and antioxidant defenses while triggering beneficial hormonal responses in host plants. The authors note that wider agricultural use of these fungi is limited by challenges in mass production and variability across different crops and soil conditions.
The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application
This review covers the latest advances in understanding mycorrhizal fungi, which form partnerships with plant roots to help them absorb nutrients and resist stress. While not directly about microplastics, mycorrhizal networks play a critical role in soil health, and research shows that microplastic contamination in soil can disrupt these beneficial fungal partnerships. Healthy mycorrhizal networks may also help buffer plants against some negative effects of soil pollutants, including microplastics.
Editorial: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: The Bridge Between Plants, Soils, and Humans
This editorial synthesizes the diverse functional roles of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi as biological bridges between plant roots, soils, and human food systems, highlighting their direct effects including enhanced nutrient acquisition, pollutant immobilization, and induced pathogen tolerance. The piece frames AM symbiosis as a key lever for sustainable agriculture, improving crop yield and quality while mediating soil physical and microbial properties across approximately 70% of all plant species.
Mycorrhizas for a sustainable world
This review synthesizes findings from the 10th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, covering how mycorrhizal fungal associations — present in over 80% of plant species — influence nutrient cycling, ecosystem resilience, and sustainability across scales from individual plants to global ecosystems. The paper highlights research priorities including mycorrhiza-based strategies for sustainable agriculture and restoration.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi attenuate negative impact of drought on soil functions
A meta-analysis combined with greenhouse experiments demonstrated that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi promote soil aggregation, microbial biomass, and nutrient-cycling enzyme activity, effectively buffering soil functions against drought. This protective effect is relevant to microplastic concerns because soil health is increasingly threatened by plastic pollution, and understanding natural soil defense mechanisms is important for protecting agricultural ecosystems.
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Inhibit the Allocation of Microplastics from Crop Roots to Aboveground Edible Parts
Scientists discovered that beneficial soil fungi called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can reduce the amount of microplastics that travel from plant roots into the edible parts of lettuce. Plants grown with these fungi transported significantly fewer plastic particles to their leaves compared to plants without them. The findings suggest that natural fungal partnerships in soil could serve as a biological barrier helping protect food crops from microplastic contamination.
Effect of microplastics on rhizosphere and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of Zea mays
Researchers exposed maize to two types of polyethylene microplastics (0.1% and 0.5% w/w) in glasshouse conditions for seven weeks and measured effects on rhizosphere fungi and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhizal root colonization, spore abundance, and fungal diversity were significantly reduced in a concentration-dependent manner, potentially impairing plant nutrient uptake.
Effects of microplastic types and shapes on the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in different soil types
Researchers examined how different types and shapes of microplastics affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities across various soil types. The study found that microplastics alter soil structure and chemistry in ways that disrupt these beneficial fungi, which play crucial roles in nutrient exchange, soil stability, and water movement.
Nurturing with Nature: The Efficacy of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Microbe for Cocoa Sector Environmental Management in Ghana
Researchers tested the efficacy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculation for improving plant establishment and soil health in revegetation of degraded land, finding that mycorrhizal treatments increased plant biomass, root development, and soil nutrient cycling compared to uninoculated controls. The study supports the use of mycorrhizal bioinoculants as a nature-based tool for ecological restoration.
Potential impacts of two types of microplastics on Solanum lycopersicum L. and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Researchers investigated the potential impacts of two types of microplastics on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, examining how plastic pollution may disrupt plant-fungal symbiotic relationships in agricultural soils.
Effects of Microplastics and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Soybean Growth and Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions in a sandy-loam
Researchers investigated how microplastics and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi interact to affect soybean growth and greenhouse gas emissions in sandy-loam soil, examining whether fungal colonization can mitigate microplastic-induced stress on plant development.
Microplastic fiber and drought effects on plants and soil are only slightly modified by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Researchers grew onions in soil contaminated with polyester microfibers under normal and drought conditions, finding that microfibers actually boosted plant growth and encouraged beneficial root fungi (mycorrhizae), but still degraded soil structure regardless. The results suggest microplastic fibers can subtly reshape plant-soil systems in ways not always visible at the surface.
Maize root-soil microbial interactions and their effects on soil health and yield
Researchers examined interactions between maize roots and soil microbial communities, investigating how root-microbe dynamics influence soil health indicators and crop yield. The study found specific rhizosphere microbial associations that promote nutrient availability and plant productivity.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and glomalin mediate the effects of microplastics on soil carbon storage
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and a soil protein called glomalin were found to mediate the effects of microplastics on plant growth and soil structure. This suggests that the ecological impact of microplastics in agricultural soils is shaped by the presence and health of fungal communities that support plant nutrition.
In-Forest Planting of High-Value Herb Sarcandra glabra Enhances Soil Carbon Storage without Affecting the Diversity of the Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungal Community and Composition of Cunninghamia lanceolata
Researchers examined the effects of planting the high-value herb Sarcandra glabra within Cunninghamia lanceolata forests in southern China on soil carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and the diversity and composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) communities over three years. They found that in-forest herb planting enhanced soil carbon storage without significantly disrupting AMF diversity or composition in the host tree species.
Unraveling the Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Plant Growth, Nutrient Content, and Heavy Metal Accumulation in the Contaminated Soil: A Meta-analysis
This meta-analysis of 33 studies found that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi significantly increase heavy metal accumulation in plant roots while reducing it in above-ground tissues, effectively acting as a biofilter. AMF-inoculated plants showed enhanced growth, biomass, and nutrient uptake on polluted land, suggesting a practical bioremediation strategy for contaminated soils.
Effects of microplastics on crop nutrition in fertile soils and interaction with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Researchers found that microplastic fibers at 0.4% concentration in soil disrupted potassium, magnesium, and sulfur uptake in onions, but that inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi buffered these negative effects by enhancing nutrient availability and plant uptake.
Synergistic Reduction of Arsenic Uptake and Alleviation of Leaf Arsenic Toxicity in Maize (Zea mays L.) by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and Exogenous Iron through Antioxidant Activity
Researchers studied whether combining a beneficial soil fungus (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi) with iron supplements could help protect corn plants from arsenic contamination in soil. They found that using both together significantly reduced arsenic uptake in the plants while boosting growth, phosphorus absorption, and antioxidant defenses in the leaves. The study suggests that this combined biological and mineral approach could help make crops safer to grow in arsenic-contaminated farmland.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance maize cadmium resistance and reduce translocation: Dependence on microplastics concentration
Researchers investigated how beneficial soil fungi called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can help maize plants resist cadmium toxicity in soils contaminated with both microplastics and heavy metals. They found that high concentrations of polyethylene microplastics worsened cadmium toxicity, but inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi significantly improved plant growth, nutrient uptake, and photosynthesis. The study suggests that these fungi could serve as a biological tool for managing crop health in soils with combined microplastic and heavy metal contamination.