Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Genetic determinants of endophytism in the Arabidopsis root mycobiome

  • Fantin Mesny,
  • Shingo Miyauchi,
  • Thorsten Thiergart,
  • Brigitte Pickel,
  • Lea Atanasova,
  • Magnus Karlsson,
  • Bruno Hüttel,
  • Kerrie W. Barry,
  • Sajeet Haridas,
  • Cindy Chen,
  • Diane Bauer,
  • William Andreopoulos,
  • Jasmyn Pangilinan,
  • Kurt LaButti,
  • Robert Riley,
  • Anna Lipzen,
  • Alicia Clum,
  • Elodie Drula,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Annegret Kohler,
  • Igor V. Grigoriev,
  • Francis M. Martin,
  • Stéphane Hacquard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27479-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Plant roots host diverse fungal communities that affect plant health. Here, Mesny et al. use comparative genomics and transcriptomics of fungal isolates from the Arabidopsis thaliana root mycobiota, together with root colonization assays, to identify genetic determinants of endophytism.