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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 251, Issue 2, Pages 185-192Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.08.007
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; genetic makeup; Glomeromycota; homokaryosis; population structure; reproductive mode; vegetative incompatibility
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (Glomeromycota) colonize roots of the majority of land plants and facilitate their mineral nutrient uptake. Consequently, AM fungi play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems and are becoming a component of sustainable land management practices. The absence of sexual reproductive structures in modern Glomeromycota combined with their long evolutionary history suggest that these fungi may represent an ancient asexual lineage of great potential interest to evolutionary biology. However, many aspects of basic AM fungal biology, including genome structure, within-individual genetic variation, and reproductive mode are poorly understood. These knowledge gaps hinder research on the mechanisms of AM fungal interactions with individual plants and plant communities, and utilization of AM fungi in agricultural practices. I present here the current state of research on the reproduction in AM fungi and indicate what new findings can be expected in the future. (C) 2005 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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