Tag Archives: mycorrhiza
Engineering native microbiome with stable symbionts: Novel approach to sustain agriculture
The depletion of biosphere resources and the ever-growing global human population have necessitated development of several strategies to sustainable agriculture and secure food safety . Applications of chemical fertilizers and development of transgenic plants have improved the
The discovery of an ancient symbiosis challenges a decades old paradigm
The vast majority of land plants form intimate nutritional partnerships with filamentous fungi wherein fungal-acquired mineral nutrients from the soil are traded for plant-generated organic carbon. These mutualistic associations, known as arbuscular mycorrhizas (“tree-like fungus-roots”), are widely
