Mycorrhiza
Amycorrhiza(fromAncient Greekμύκης(múkēs)'fungus' andῥίζα(rhíza)'root';pl.mycorrhizae,mycorrhiza,ormycorrhizas)[1]is asymbioticassociation between afungusand aplant.[2]The term mycorrhiza refers to the role of the fungus in the plant'srhizosphere,the plantrootsystem and its surroundings. Mycorrhizae play important roles inplant nutrition,soil biology,andsoil chemistry.
In a mycorrhizal association, the fungus colonizes the host plant's root tissues, eitherintracellularlyas inarbuscular mycorrhizal fungi,orextracellularlyas inectomycorrhizalfungi.[3]The association is normallymutualistic.In particular species, or in particular circumstances, mycorrhizae may have aparasiticassociation with host plants.[4]
Definition
[edit]A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a green plant and a fungus. The plant makes organic molecules byphotosynthesisand supplies them to the fungus in the form of sugars or lipids, while the fungus supplies the plant with water and mineral nutrients, such asphosphorus,taken from the soil. Mycorrhizas are located in the roots of vascular plants, but mycorrhiza-like associations also occur inbryophytes[5]and there is fossil evidence that early land plants that lacked roots formed arbuscular mycorrhizal associations.[6]Most plant species form mycorrhizal associations, though some families likeBrassicaceaeandChenopodiaceaecannot. Different forms for the association are detailed in the next section. The most common is thearbuscular typethat is present in 70% of plant species, including many crop plants such as cereals and legumes.[7]
Evolution
[edit]Fossil and genetic evidence indicate that mycorrhizae are ancient, potentially as old as theterrestrialization of plants.Genetic evidence indicates that all land plants share a single common ancestor,[8]which appears to have quickly adopted mycorrhizal symbiosis, and research suggests that proto-mycorrhizal fungi were a key factor enabling plant terrestrialization.[9]The 400 million year oldRhynie chertcontains an assemblage of fossil plants preserved in sufficient detail that arbuscular mycorrhizae have been observed in the stems ofAglaophyton major,giving a lower bound for how late mycorrhizal symbiosis may have developed.[6]Ectomycorrhizae developed substantially later, during theJurassicperiod, while most other modern mycorrhizal families, including orchid and ericoid mycorrhizae, date to the period ofangiosperm radiationin theCretaceousperiod.[10]There is genetic evidence that the symbiosis betweenlegumesandnitrogen-fixing bacteriais an extension of mycorrhizal symbiosis.[11]The modern distribution of mycorrhizal fungi appears to reflect an increasing complexity and competition in root morphology associated with the dominance of angiosperms in theCenozoic Era,characterized by complex ecological dynamics between species.[12]
Types
[edit]The mycorrhizal lifestyle has independentlyconvergently evolvedmultiple times in the history of Earth.[13]There are multiple ways to categorize mycorrhizal symbiosis. One major categorization is the division betweenectomycorrhizasandendomycorrhizas.The two types are differentiated by the fact that the hyphae of ectomycorrhizal fungi do not penetrate individualcellswithin the root, while thehyphaeof endomycorrhizal fungi penetrate the cell wall andinvaginatethecell membrane.[14][15]
Similar symbiotic relationships
[edit]Some forms of plant-fungal symbiosis are similar to mycorrhizae, but considered distinct. One example is fungal endophytes. Endophytes are defined as organisms that can live within plant cells without causing harm to the plant. They are distinguishable from mycorrhizal fungi by the absence of nutrient-transferring structures for bringing in nutrients from outside the plant.[13]Some lineages of mycorrhizal fungi may have evolved from endophytes into mycorrhizal fungi,[16]and some fungi can live as mycorrhizae or as endophytes.
Ectomycorrhiza
[edit]Ectomycorrhizae are distinct in that they do not penetrate into plant cells, but instead form a structure called aHartig netthat penetrates between cells.[17]Ectomycorrhizas consist of a hyphal sheath, or mantle, covering the root tip and the Hartig net of hyphae surrounding the plant cells within the rootcortex.In some cases the hyphae may also penetrate the plant cells, in which case the mycorrhiza is called an endomycorrhiza. Outside the root,ectomycorrhizal extramatrical myceliumforms an extensive network within the soil andleaf litter.Other forms of mycorrhizae, including arbuscular, ericoid, arbutoid, monotropoid, and orchid mycorrhizas, are considered endomycorrhizae.[18]
Ectomycorrhizas, or EcM, are symbiotic associations between the roots of around 10% of plant families, mostly woody plants including thebirch,dipterocarp,eucalyptus,oak,pine,androse[19]families,orchids,[20]and fungi belonging to theBasidiomycota,Ascomycota,andZygomycota.Ectomycorrhizae associate with relatively few plant species, only about 2% of plant species on Earth, but the species they associate with are mostly trees and woody plants that are highly dominant in their ecosystems, meaning plants in ectomycorrhizal relationships make up a large proportion of plant biomass.[21]Some EcM fungi, such as manyLeccinumandSuillus,are symbiotic with only one particular genus of plant, while other fungi, such as theAmanita,are generalists that form mycorrhizas with many different plants.[22]An individual tree may have 15 or more different fungal EcM partners at one time.[23]While the diversity of plants involved in EcM is low, the diversity of fungi involved in EcM is high. Thousands of ectomycorrhizal fungal species exist, hosted in over 200 genera. A recent study has conservatively estimated global ectomycorrhizal fungal species richness at approximately 7750 species, although, on the basis of estimates of knowns and unknowns in macromycete diversity, a final estimate of ECM species richness would probably be between 20,000 and 25,000.[24]Ectomycorrhizal fungi evolved independently from saprotrophic ancestors many times in the group's history.[25]
Nutrients can be shown to move between different plants through the fungal network. Carbon has been shown to move frompaper birchseedlings into adjacentDouglas-firseedlings, although not conclusively through a common mycorrhizal network,[26]thereby promotingsuccessioninecosystems.[27]The ectomycorrhizal fungusLaccaria bicolorhas been found to lure and killspringtailsto obtain nitrogen, some of which may then be transferred to the mycorrhizal host plant. In a study by Klironomos and Hart,Eastern White Pineinoculated withL. bicolorwas able to derive up to 25% of its nitrogen from springtails.[28][29]When compared with non-mycorrhizal fine roots, ectomycorrhizae may contain very high concentrations of trace elements, including toxic metals (cadmium, silver) or chlorine.[30]
The first genomic sequence for a representative of symbiotic fungi, the ectomycorrhizal basidiomyceteL. bicolor,was published in 2008.[31]An expansion of several multigene families occurred in this fungus, suggesting that adaptation to symbiosis proceeded by gene duplication. Within lineage-specific genes those coding for symbiosis-regulated secreted proteins showed an up-regulated expression in ectomycorrhizal root tips suggesting a role in the partner communication.L. bicoloris lacking enzymes involved in the degradation of plant cell wall components (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectins and pectates), preventing the symbiont from degrading host cells during the root colonisation. By contrast,L. bicolorpossesses expanded multigene families associated with hydrolysis of bacterial and microfauna polysaccharides and proteins. This genome analysis revealed the dualsaprotrophicandbiotrophiclifestyle of the mycorrhizal fungus that enables it to grow within both soil and living plant roots. Since then, the genomes of many other ectomycorrhizal fungal species have been sequenced further expanding the study of gene families and evolution in these organisms.[32]
Arbutoid mycorrhiza
[edit]This type of mycorrhiza involves plants of the Ericaceae subfamilyArbutoideae.It is however different from ericoid mycorrhiza and resembles ectomycorrhiza, both functionally and in terms of the fungi involved.[33]It differs from ectomycorrhiza in that some hyphae actually penetrate into the root cells, making this type of mycorrhiza anectendomycorrhiza.[34]
Arbuscular mycorrhiza
[edit]Arbuscular mycorrhizas,(formerly known as vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas), have hyphae that penetrate plant cells, producing branching, tree-like structures called arbuscules within the plant cells for nutrient exchange. Often, balloon-like storage structures, termed vesicles, are also produced. In this interaction, fungalhyphaedo not in fact penetrate theprotoplast(i.e. the interior of the cell), but invaginate thecell membrane,creating a so-called peri-arbuscular membrane. The structure of the arbuscules greatly increases the contact surface area between the hypha and the host cellcytoplasmto facilitate the transfer of nutrients between them. Arbuscular mycorrhizas are obligate biotrophs, meaning that they depend upon the plant host for both growth and reproduction; they have lost the ability to sustain themselves by decomposing dead plant material.[35]Twenty percent of the photosynthetic products made by the plant host are consumed by the fungi, the transfer of carbon from the terrestrial host plant is then exchanged by equal amounts of phosphate from the fungi to the plant host.[36]
Contrasting with the pattern seen in ectomycorrhizae, the species diversity of AMFs is very low, but the diversity of plant hosts is very high; an estimated 78% of all plant species associate with AMFs.[21]Arbuscular mycorrhizas are formed only by fungi in thedivisionGlomeromycota.Fossil evidence[6]and DNA sequence analysis[37]suggest that this mutualism appeared400-460 million years ago,when the first plants were colonizing land. Arbuscular mycorrhizas are found in 85% of all plant families, and occur in many crop species.[19]The hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce the glycoproteinglomalin,which may be one of the major stores of carbon in the soil.[38]Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have (possibly) been asexual for many millions of years and, unusually, individuals can contain many genetically different nuclei (a phenomenon calledheterokaryosis).[39]
Mucoromycotina fine root endophytes
[edit]Mycorrhizal fungi belonging toMucoromycotina,known as “fine root endophytes" (MFREs), were mistakenly identified as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi until recently. While similar to AMF, MFREs are from subphylum Mucoromycotina instead of Glomeromycotina. Their morphology when colonizing a plant root is very similar to AMF, but they form fine textured hyphae.[17]Effects of MFREs may have been mistakenly attributed to AMFs due to confusion between the two, complicated by the fact that AMFs and MFREs often colonize the same hosts simultaneously. Unlike AMFs, they appear capable of surviving without a host. This group of mycorrhizal fungi is little understood, but appears to prefer wet, acidic soils and forms symbiotic relationships with liverworts, hornworts, lycophytes, and angiosperms.[40]
Ericoid mycorrhiza
[edit]Ericoid mycorrhizae,or ErMs, involve only plants inEricalesand are the most recently evolved of the major mycorrhizal relationships. Plants that form ericoid mycorrhizae are mostly woody understory shrubs; hosts include blueberries, bilberries, cranberries, mountain laurels, rhododendrons, heather, neinei, and giant grass tree. ErMs are most common inboreal forests,but are found in two-thirds of all forests on Earth.[21]Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi belong to several different lineages of fungi. Some species can live as endophytes entirely within plant cells even within plants outside the Ericales, or live independently as saprotrophs that decompose dead organic matter. This ability to switch between multiple lifestyle types makes ericoid mycorrhizal fungi very adaptable.[13]
Plants that participate in these symbioses have specialized roots with no root hairs, which are covered with a layer of epidermal cells that the fungus penetrates into and completely occupies.[17]The fungi have a simple intraradical (growth in cells) phase, consisting of dense coils of hyphae in the outermost layer of root cells. There is no periradical phase and the extraradical phase consists of sparse hyphae that don't extend very far into the surrounding soil. They might form sporocarps (probably in the form of small cups), but their reproductive biology is poorly understood.[15]
Plants participating in ericoid mycorrhizal symbioses are found in acidic, nutrient-poor conditions.[13]Whereas AMFs have lost theirsaprotrophiccapabilities, and EcM fungi have significant variation in their ability to produce enzymes needed for a saprotrophic lifestyle,[21]fungi involved in ErMs have fully retained the ability to decompose plant material for sustenance. Some ericoid mycorrhizal fungi have actually expanded their repertoire of enzymes for breaking down organic matter. They can extract nitrogen from cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, pectin, and chitin. This would increase the benefit they can provide to their plant symbiotic partners.[42]
Orchid mycorrhiza
[edit]Allorchidsaremyco-heterotrophicat some stage during their lifecycle, meaning that they can survive only if they formorchid mycorrhizae.Orchid seeds are so small that they contain no nutrition to sustain the germinating seedling, and instead must gain the energy to grow from their fungal symbiont.[17]The OM relationship is asymmetric; the plant seems to benefit more than the fungus, and some orchids are entirely mycoheterotrophic, lacking chlorophyll for photosynthesis. It is actually unknown whether fully autotrophic orchids that do not receive some of their carbon from fungi exist or not.[43]Like fungi that form ErMs, OM fungi can sometimes live as endophytes or as independent saprotrophs. In the OM symbiosis, hyphae penetrate into the root cells and form pelotons (coils) for nutrient exchange.
Monotropoid mycorrhiza
[edit]This type of mycorrhiza occurs in the subfamilyMonotropoideaeof theEricaceae,as well as several genera in theOrchidaceae.These plants areheterotrophicormixotrophicand derive their carbon from the fungus partner. This is thus a non-mutualistic,parasitictype of mycorrhizal symbiosis.[citation needed]
Function
[edit]Mycorrhizal fungi form amutualisticrelationship with the roots of most plant species. In such a relationship, both the plants themselves and those parts of the roots that host the fungi, are said to be mycorrhizal. Relatively few of the mycorrhizal relationships between plant species and fungi have been examined to date, but 95% of the plant families investigated are predominantly mycorrhizal either in the sense that most of their species associate beneficially with mycorrhizae, or are absolutely dependent on mycorrhizae. TheOrchidaceaeare notorious as a family in which the absence of the correct mycorrhizae is fatal even to germinating seeds.[44]
Recent research intoectomycorrhizalplants inboreal forestshas indicated that mycorrhizal fungi and plants have a relationship that may be more complex than simply mutualistic. This relationship was noted when mycorrhizal fungi were unexpectedly found to be hoarding nitrogen from plant roots in times of nitrogen scarcity. Researchers argue that some mycorrhizae distribute nutrients based upon the environment with surrounding plants and other mycorrhizae. They go on to explain how this updated model could explain why mycorrhizae do not alleviate plant nitrogen limitation, and why plants can switch abruptly from a mixed strategy with both mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal roots to a purely mycorrhizal strategy as soil nitrogen availability declines.[45]It has also been suggested that evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships can explain much more variation in the strength of mycorrhizal mutualisms than ecological factors.[46]
Formation
[edit]To successfully engage in mutualistic symbiotic relationships withother organisms,such as mycorrhizal fungi and any of the thousands of microbes that colonize plants, plants must discriminate between mutualists and pathogens, allowing the mutualists to colonize while activating animmuneresponse towards the pathogens. Plant genomes code for potentially hundreds ofreceptorsfor detecting chemical signals from other organisms. Plants dynamically adjust their symbiotic and immune responses, changing their interactions with their symbionts in response to feedbacks detected by the plant.[47]In plants, the mycorrhizal symbiosis is regulated by the common symbiosis signaling pathway (CSSP), a set of genes involved in initiating and maintaining colonization by endosymbiotic fungi and other endosymbionts such asRhizobiainlegumes.The CSSP has origins predating the colonization of land by plants, demonstrating that the co-evolution of plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is over 500 million years old.[48]In arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, the presence ofstrigolactones,a plant hormone, secreted from roots induces fungal spores in the soil to germinate, stimulates their metabolism, growth and branching, and prompts the fungi to release chemical signals the plant can detect.[49]Once the plant and fungus recognize one another as suitable symbionts, the plant activates the common symbiotic signaling pathway, which causes changes in the root tissues that enable the fungus to colonize.[50]
Experiments with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have identified numerous chemical compounds to be involved in the "chemical dialog" that occurs between the prospective symbionts before symbiosis is begun. In plants, almost all plant hormones play a role in initiating or regulating AMF symbiosis, and other chemical compounds are also suspected to have a signaling function. While the signals emitted by the fungi are less understood, it has been shown that chitinaceous molecules known as Myc factors are essential for the formation of arbuscular mycorrhizae. Signals from plants are detected by LysM-containing receptor-like kinases, or LysM-RLKs. AMF genomes also code for potentially hundreds of effector proteins, of which only a few have a proven effect on mycorrhizal symbiosis, but many others likely have a function in communication with plant hosts as well.[51]
Many factors are involved in the initiation of mycorrhizal symbiosis, but particularly influential is the plant's need forphosphorus.Experiments involvingriceplants with a mutation disabling their ability to detect P starvation show that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi detection, recruitment and colonization is prompted when the plant detects that it is starved of phosphorus.[52]Nitrogen starvation also plays a role in initiating AMF symbiosis.[53]
Mechanisms
[edit]The mechanisms by which mycorrhizae increase absorption include some that are physical and some that are chemical. Physically, most mycorrhizal mycelia are much smaller in diameter than the smallest root or root hair, and thus can explore soil material that roots and root hairs cannot reach, and provide a larger surface area for absorption. Chemically, the cell membrane chemistry of fungi differs from that of plants. For example, they may secreteorganic acidsthat dissolve orchelatemany ions, or release them from minerals byion exchange.[54]Mycorrhizae are especially beneficial for the plant partner in nutrient-poor soils.[55]
Sugar-water/mineral exchange
[edit]The mycorrhizal mutualistic association provides the fungus with relatively constant and direct access tocarbohydrates,such asglucoseandsucrose.[56]The carbohydrates are translocated from their source (usually leaves) to root tissue and on to the plant's fungal partners. In return, the plant gains the benefits of themycelium's higher absorptive capacity for water and mineral nutrients, partly because of the large surface area of fungal hyphae, which are much longer and finer than plantroot hairs,and partly because some such fungi can mobilize soil minerals unavailable to the plants' roots. The effect is thus to improve the plant's mineral absorption capabilities.[57]
Unaided plant roots may be unable to take upnutrientsthat are chemically or physicallyimmobilised;examples includephosphateionsandmicronutrientssuch as iron. One form of such immobilization occurs in soil with highclaycontent, or soils with a stronglybasic pH.Themyceliumof the mycorrhizal fungus can, however, access many such nutrient sources, and make them available to the plants they colonize.[58]Thus, many plants are able to obtain phosphate without using soil as a source. Another form of immobilisation is when nutrients are locked up in organic matter that is slow to decay, such as wood, and some mycorrhizal fungi act directly as decay organisms, mobilising the nutrients and passing some onto the host plants; for example, in somedystrophicforests, large amounts of phosphate and other nutrients are taken up by mycorrhizalhyphaeacting directly onleaf litter,bypassing the need for soil uptake.[59]Inga alley cropping,anagroforestrytechnique proposed as an alternative toslash and burnrainforest destruction,[60]relies upon mycorrhiza within the root system of species ofIngato prevent the rain from washingphosphorusout of the soil.[61]
In some more complex relationships, mycorrhizal fungi do not just collect immobilised soil nutrients, but connect individual plants together bymycorrhizal networksthat transport water, carbon, and other nutrients directly from plant to plant through underground hyphal networks.[62]
Suillus tomentosus,abasidiomycetefungus, produces specialized structures known as tuberculate ectomycorrhizae with its plant hostlodgepole pine(Pinus contortavar.latifolia). These structures have been shown to hostnitrogen fixingbacteriawhich contribute a significant amount ofnitrogenand allow the pines to colonize nutrient-poor sites.[63]
Disease, drought and salinity resistance and its correlation to mycorrhizae
[edit]Mycorrhizal plants are often more resistant to diseases, such as those caused by microbial soil-bornepathogens.These associations have been found to assist in plant defense both above and belowground. Mycorrhizas have been found to excrete enzymes that are toxic to soil borne organisms such as nematodes.[64]More recent studies have shown that mycorrhizal associations result in a priming effect of plants that essentially acts as a primary immune response. When this association is formed a defense response is activated similarly to the response that occurs when the plant is under attack. As a result of this inoculation, defense responses are stronger in plants with mycorrhizal associations.[65] Ecosystem servicesprovided by mycorrhizal fungi may depend on the soil microbiome.[66]Furthermore, mycorrhizal fungi was significantly correlated with soil physical variable, but only with water level and not with aggregate stability[67][68]and can lead also to more resistant to the effects of drought.[69][70][71]Moreover, the significance of mycorrhizal fungi also includes alleviation of salt stress and its beneficial effects on plant growth and productivity. Although salinity can negatively affect mycorrhizal fungi, many reports show improved growth and performance of mycorrhizal plants under salt stress conditions.[72]
Resistance to insects
[edit]Plants connected by mycorrhizal fungi inmycorrhizal networkscan use these underground connections to communicate warning signals.[73][74]For example, when a host plant is attacked by anaphid,the plant signals surrounding connected plants of its condition. Both the host plant and those connected to it releasevolatile organic compoundsthat repel aphids and attractparasitoid wasps,predators of aphids.[73]This assists the mycorrhizal fungi by conserving its food supply.[73]
Colonization of barren soil
[edit]Plants grown in sterilesoilsand growth media often perform poorly without the addition ofsporesor hyphae of mycorrhizal fungi to colonise the plant roots and aid in the uptake of soil mineral nutrients.[75]The absence of mycorrhizal fungi can also slow plant growth in early succession or on degraded landscapes.[76]The introduction of alien mycorrhizal plants to nutrient-deficient ecosystems puts indigenous non-mycorrhizal plants at a competitive disadvantage.[77]This aptitude to colonize barren soil is defined by the categoryOligotroph.
Resistance to toxicity
[edit]Fungi have a protective role for plants rooted in soils with high metal concentrations, such asacidicandcontaminated soils.Pinetrees inoculated withPisolithus tinctoriusplanted in several contaminated sites displayed high tolerance to the prevailing contaminant, survivorship and growth.[78]One study discovered the existence ofSuillus luteusstrains with varying tolerance ofzinc.Another study discovered that zinc-tolerant strains ofSuillus bovinusconferred resistance to plants ofPinus sylvestris.This was probably due to binding of the metal to the extramatricialmyceliumof the fungus, without affecting the exchange of beneficial substances.[77]
Occurrence of mycorrhizal associations
[edit]Mycorrhizas are present in 92% of plant families studied (80% of species),[19]witharbuscular mycorrhizasbeing the ancestral and predominant form,[19]and the most prevalent symbiotic association found in the plant kingdom.[56]The structure of arbuscular mycorrhizas has been highly conserved since their first appearance in the fossil record,[6]with both the development of ectomycorrhizas and the loss of mycorrhizas,evolving convergentlyon multiple occasions.[19]
Associations of fungi with the roots of plants have been known since at least the mid-19th century. However, early observers simply recorded the fact without investigating the relationships between the two organisms.[79]This symbiosis was studied and described byFranciszek Kamieńskiin 1879–1882.[80][81]
Climate change
[edit]CO2released by human activities is causingclimate changeand possible damage to mycorrhizae, but the direct effect of an increase in the gas should be to benefit plants and mycorrhizae.[82]In Arctic regions, nitrogen and water are harder for plants to obtain, making mycorrhizae crucial to plant growth.[83]Since mycorrhizae tend to do better in cooler temperatures, warming could be detrimental to them.[84]Gases such as SO2,NO-x, and O3produced by human activity may harm mycorrhizae, causing reduction in "propagules,the colonization of roots, degradation in connections between trees, reduction in the mycorrhizal incidence in trees, and reduction in theenzyme activityof ectomycorrhizal roots. "[85]
Conservation and mapping
[edit]In 2021, theSociety for the Protection of Underground Networkswas launched. SPUN is a science-based initiative to map and protect the mycorrhizal networks regulating Earth’s climate and ecosystems. Its stated goals are mapping, protecting, and harnessing mycorrhizal fungi.
See also
[edit]- Effect of climate change on plant biodiversity
- Endosymbiont
- Epibiont,an organism that grows on another life form
- Endophyte
- Epiphyte
- Epiphytic fungus
- Mucigel
- Mycorrhizal fungi and soil carbon storage
- Mycorrhizal network
- Rhizobia
- Suzanne Simard
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- Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisisvideo recommending agricultural mycorrhiza use to conserve phosphorus reserves & 85% waste problem @Ted.com
- Mycorrhizal Associations: The Web ResourceComprehensive illustrations and lists of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants and fungi
- Mycorrhizas – a successful symbiosisBiosafety research into genetically modified barley
- MycorWikia portal concerned with the biology and ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi and other forest fungi.