Evolutionary conservation of a phosphate transporter in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
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SUBMITTER: Karandashov V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC395961 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
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Evolutionary conservation of a phosphate transporter in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis.
Karandashov Vladimir V Nagy Réka R Wegmüller Sarah S Amrhein Nikolaus N Bucher Marcel M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040409 16
Arbuscular mycorrhizae are ancient symbioses that are thought to have originated >400 million years ago in the roots of plants, pioneering the colonization of terrestrial habitats. In these associations, a key process is the transfer of phosphorus as inorganic phosphate to the host plant across the fungus-plant interface. Mycorrhiza-specific phosphate transporter genes and their regulation are conserved in phylogenetically distant plant species, and they are activated selectively by fungal speci ...[more]
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