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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 2, Pages 789-801Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00837
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- National Institutes of Health (Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award fellowship)
- National Science Foundation [IOS 1457236]
- Research Investment Council grant from the University of Kansas
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [1457236] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) may modulate the functioning of mycorrhizal associations by altering the relative degree of nutrient and carbohydrate limitations in plants. To test this, we grew Taraxacum ceratophorum and Taraxacum officinale (native and exotic dandelions) with and without mycorrhizal fungi across a broad [CO2] gradient (1801,000 mu L L-1). Differential plant growth rates and vegetative plasticity were hypothesized to drive species-specific responses to [CO2] and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. To evaluate [CO2] effects on mycorrhizal functioning, we calculated response ratios based on the relative biomass of mycorrhizal (M-Bio) and nonmycorrhizal (NMBio) plants (R-Bio = [M-Bio - NMBio]/NMBio). We then assessed linkages between R-Bio and host physiology, fungal growth, and biomass allocation using structural equation modeling. For T. officinale, R-Bio increased with rising [CO2], shifting from negative to positive values at 700 mu L L-1. [CO2] and mycorrhizal effects on photosynthesis and leaf growth rates drove shifts in R-Bio in this species. For T. ceratophorum, R-Bio increased from 180 to 390 mu L L-1 and further increases in [CO2] caused R-Bio to shift from positive to negative values. [CO2] and fungal effects on plant growth and carbon sink strength were correlated with shifts in R-Bio in this species. Overall, we show that rising [CO2] significantly altered the functioning of mycorrhizal associations. These symbioses became more beneficial with rising [CO2], but nonlinear effects may limit plant responses to mycorrhizal fungi under future [CO2]. The magnitude and mechanisms driving mycorrhizal-CO2 responses reflected species-specific differences in growth rate and vegetative plasticity, indicating that these traits may provide a framework for predicting mycorrhizal responses to global change.
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