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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 150-154Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.12.002
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arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; chitin; strigolactones; cutin monomers; signal molecules; receptors
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Plants rely on their associated microbiota for crucial physiological activities; realization of this interaction drives research to understand inter-domain communication. This opinion article focuses on the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, which involves the Glomeromycota, fungi that can form a symbiosis with most plants. Here we propose the hypothesis that the molecules involved in inter-kingdom symbiotic signaling, such as strigolactones, cutin monomers, and chitin-related molecules, also have key roles in development, originally unrelated to symbiosis. Thus, the symbiotic role of these molecules relies on the co-evolved capacity of the AM partners to perceive and interpret them as symbiotic signals.
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