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Mycorrhizal and Pathogenic Fungi: Do They Share Any Features?

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Symbiotic interactions of higher plants and fungi range from pathogenic to mutualistic associations, depending on the nutritional strategy of the microorganism [26]. Plant pathogens drain sugars from specific autotrophic partners and express their virulent phenotype on them, producing toxins and/or enzymes, lastly causing “plant diseases” [30]. Mycorrhizal fungi, which are the most common symbiotic fungi, spend an important part of their life cycle inside the host. Like pathogenic fungi, most mycorrhizal fungi drain sugars from the host, but they counter this drawback by improving the mineral nutrition of the plant. The common response during these symbiotic associations is a growth increase of the host [23]. Therefore, beside the different responses of the colonized plant at the organismic level, the pathway of the nutrient flux represents an important difference between pathogenic and mycorrhizal associations at the cellular level. It goes from the plant towards the heterotrophic fungus following a one-way route in pathogenic interaction, while there is a two-way exchange in the mycorrhizal interaction [39].

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Bonfante-Fasolo, P., Perotto, S. (1991). Mycorrhizal and Pathogenic Fungi: Do They Share Any Features?. In: Mendgen, K., Lesemann, DE. (eds) Electron Microscopy of Plant Pathogens. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75818-8_20

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