Arbscular mycorrhiza(AM),a symbiosis between plants and members of fungi Glomeromycota,improves the resistance,nutrition and material metabolism of plant.Arbuscules generated by symbiotic development,is the main site ...Arbscular mycorrhiza(AM),a symbiosis between plants and members of fungi Glomeromycota,improves the resistance,nutrition and material metabolism of plant.Arbuscules generated by symbiotic development,is the main site of nutrient exchange and genetic material recombination,resulting in physiological changes and gene expression regulation.AM regulates pathogenesis-related protein(PRs) genes and antioxidant enzyme genes against biotic and abiotic stresses.Nutrient exchange induced by AM is directly involved in uptake,transformation and utilization of nutrient elements in plants.Importantly,transporter genes play an important role in phosphate,nitrogen and carbon acquisition.In AM interactions,phosphate transporter(PT) genes,from both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant root,are induced and there product promote phosphate acquisition;increasing expression of ammonium transporter(AMT) genes and arginine biosynthesis/degradation enzyme genes is in charge of nitrogen acquisition;and promotion mechanism of carbon acquisition is involved in up-regulation of sugar transporter genes.In addition,secondary metabolites,functioned as signal moleculars and defense compounds,are increased with development of AM symbiont by up-regulating related synthetic genes based on different promotion mechanism.Taken together,molecular regulation of plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi,induced by infection process,stimulate plant nutrient acquisition and resist to biotic/abiotic stress.展开更多
基金financed by the Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(20110101110094)
文摘Arbscular mycorrhiza(AM),a symbiosis between plants and members of fungi Glomeromycota,improves the resistance,nutrition and material metabolism of plant.Arbuscules generated by symbiotic development,is the main site of nutrient exchange and genetic material recombination,resulting in physiological changes and gene expression regulation.AM regulates pathogenesis-related protein(PRs) genes and antioxidant enzyme genes against biotic and abiotic stresses.Nutrient exchange induced by AM is directly involved in uptake,transformation and utilization of nutrient elements in plants.Importantly,transporter genes play an important role in phosphate,nitrogen and carbon acquisition.In AM interactions,phosphate transporter(PT) genes,from both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant root,are induced and there product promote phosphate acquisition;increasing expression of ammonium transporter(AMT) genes and arginine biosynthesis/degradation enzyme genes is in charge of nitrogen acquisition;and promotion mechanism of carbon acquisition is involved in up-regulation of sugar transporter genes.In addition,secondary metabolites,functioned as signal moleculars and defense compounds,are increased with development of AM symbiont by up-regulating related synthetic genes based on different promotion mechanism.Taken together,molecular regulation of plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi,induced by infection process,stimulate plant nutrient acquisition and resist to biotic/abiotic stress.
