Sentences with phrase «plant symbionts»
Functional genomics will also help scientists understand how AMF interact with their plant symbionts at the molecular level.
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For many Brucella genes, the closest matches were with a plant pathogen (Agrobacterium tumefaciens) and a plant symbiont (Mesorhizobium loti).
Not exact matches
Mycorrhizae, important representatives of soil fungi, live as symbionts with plant roots.
«This suggested that fungal symbionts that colonize plants which are deficient in lipid biosynthesis suffer from a lack of essential lipids,» says Andreas Keymer, a PhD student in Gutjahr's group and first author of the new study.
One noticeable beneficiary is beechdrops, a flowering plant devoid of chlorophyll that is a symbiont of...
Similarly, plant cells probably acquired chloroplasts, which capture the energy of sunlight, from some early parasite or symbiont.
Given that fungal symbionts are quite common in some plants, «it would be interesting to know how general this conclusion is,» he notes.
The study represents a first step towards improving understanding of symbiont relationships and their benefit or lack of benefit, for plant and insect species.
We will continue to study whether pathogens are exploiting mechanisms evolved to support symbionts and, hopefully, this will allow us to establish future crop plants that both benefit from symbionts whilst remaining more resistant to pathogens.
Digging deeper, the symbiosis is analogous to that between plants and their «birds and bees» symbionts.
Herbivores may also utilize symbionts to evade plant defences.
Bacterial symbionts transition between plant pathogenicity and insect defensive mutualism...
In this system, the gall of the midge consists of a biotrophic fungal symbiont that develops on host - plant leaves and forms distinctly variable protective carapaces over midge larvae.
Members of the Helotiales thrive in various ecosystems and cover a broad range of niches, and helotialean fungi have been described as plant pathogens, endophytes, mycorrhizae, fungal parasites, terrestrial saprobes, aquatic saprobes, root symbionts, and wood rot fungi.
symbionts organisms that live together to mutual benefit [e.g., nitrogen - fixing bacteria that live with a plant (legume)-RSB-