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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hoeksema JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123707 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Communications biology 20180816
Most plants engage in symbioses with mycorrhizal fungi in soils and net consequences for plants vary widely from mutualism to parasitism. However, we lack a synthetic understanding of the evolutionary and ecological forces driving such variation for this or any other nutritional symbiosis. We used meta-analysis across 646 combinations of plants and fungi to show that evolutionary history explains substantially more variation in plant responses to mycorrhizal fungi than the ecological factors inc ...[more]