Phosphorus acquisition efficiency in arbuscular mycorrhizal maize is correlated with the abundance of root-external hyphae and the accumulation of transcripts encoding PHT1 phosphate transporters
R. J. H. Sawers, S. F. Svane, C. Quan, M. Gronlund, B. Wozniak, E. Gonzalez-Munoz, R. Chavez Montes, I. Baxter, J. Goudet, I. Jakobsen, U. Paszkowski
The paper investigates how genetic variation in maize affects phosphorus acquisition efficiency through arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, finding correlations with root hyphae abundance and PHT1 transporter transcripts.
bioRxiv · Mar 1, 2016Plant Biology