RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Coordinated changes in the accumulation of metal ions in maize (<em>Zea mays</em> ssp. <em>mays</em> L.) in response to inoculation with the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus <em>Funneliformis mosseae</em>
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 135459
DO 10.1101/135459
A1 M. Rosario Flores-Ramirez
A1 Ruben Rellan-Alvarez
A1 Barbara Wozniak
A1 Mesfin-Nigussie Gebreselassie
A1 Iver Jakobsen
A1 Victor Olalde-Portugal
A1 Ivan Baxter
A1 Uta Paszkowski
A1 Ruairidh J.H. Sawers
YR 2017
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/08/135459.abstract
AB Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis is an ancient interaction between plants and Glomeromycotan fungi. In exchange for photosynthetically fixed carbon, the fungus provides the plant host with greater access to soil nutrients via an extensive network of root-external hyphae. Here, to determine the impact of the symbiosis on the host ionome, the concentration of nineteen elements was determined in the roots and leaves of a panel of thirty maize varieties, grown with, or without, inoculation with the fungus Funneliformis mosseae. Although the most recognized benefit of the symbiosis to host plant growth is greater access to soil phosphorus, the concentration of a number of other elements responded significantly to inoculation across the panel as a whole. In addition, variety-specific effects indicated the importance of plant genotype to the response. Clusters of elements were identified that varied in a coordinated manner across genotypes, and that were maintained between non-inoculated and inoculated plants, even if the response itself varied in different varieties.