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The Role of the Plant Plasma Membrane in Symbiosis

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The symbiotic associations that will be considered in this chapter involve a stable physical relationship between two different organisms that is perceived to be mutually beneficial to both partners (Smith and Douglas 1987). In each case, intimate surface contact between a microorganism and a plant cell leads to invagination of the plant cell plasma membrane and sometimes to enclosure of the microsymbiont within the cytoplasm of the plant cell. However, although physically internalized, all stable endosymbionts remain, in a sense, topological outside the plant cell cytoplasm because they are bounded by a host- derived membrane, the perisymbiotic membrane, which is a modified form of the plasma membrane. This review will focus on the plasma membrane as the agent for cellular morphogenesis during the establishment of the symbiosis, and as the mediator of signal and nutrient exchange between the two partners.

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VA:

vesicular arbuscular

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Brewin, N.J. (1989). The Role of the Plant Plasma Membrane in Symbiosis. In: Larsson, C., Møller, I.M. (eds) The Plant Plasma Membrane. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74522-5_15

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