Nature Communications (May 2016)

Survival trade-offs in plant roots during colonization by closely related beneficial and pathogenic fungi

  • Stéphane Hacquard,
  • Barbara Kracher,
  • Kei Hiruma,
  • Philipp C. Münch,
  • Ruben Garrido-Oter,
  • Michael R. Thon,
  • Aaron Weimann,
  • Ulrike Damm,
  • Jean-Félix Dallery,
  • Matthieu Hainaut,
  • Bernard Henrissat,
  • Olivier Lespinet,
  • Soledad Sacristán,
  • Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat,
  • Eric Kemen,
  • Alice C. McHardy,
  • Paul Schulze-Lefert,
  • Richard J. O’Connell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Colletotrichum tofieldiae is a beneficial root endophyte, whereas the closely related C. incanumis pathogenic. Here the authors compare the genomes and transcriptomes during host plant interaction and demonstrate that the host plant can respond differently to the beneficial endophyte according to phosphate status.