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It is well established that arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiotic fungi contribute to the scavenging of soil mineral nutrients in exchange for photosynthetically fixed organic carbon in the large majority of land plants. However, plants are naturally interconnected by a common mycorrhizal network (CMN), and the terms of trade as well as developmental interactions between plants connected with a shared fungal partner are still poorly understood. To facilitate the decrypting of such complex relationships, model systems allowing the study of two or more interconnected plants have been developed. Compartmented microcosms were designed to physically separate the roots of studied plants (using meshes) that can in fact only interact through a CMN the integrity of which can be controlled. Here, we report on recently published results relative to the implementation of various specifically designed microcosms to better understand the role in plant-plant relationships of the CMN and that of the AM fungal species involved.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by the Plant Health and Environment department from INRA, the Germaine de Stael programme (TRANSBIO 26510SG) and funding bodies within the H2020 ERA-net project, CORE Organic Cofund, and with cofunds from the European Commission (BIOVINE project).
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Bonneau, L., Recorbet, G., van Tuinen, D., Wipf, D., Courty, PE. (2019). Analysis of Common Mycorrhizal Networks in Microcosms. In: Reinhardt, D., Sharma, A. (eds) Methods in Rhizosphere Biology Research. Rhizosphere Biology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5767-1_15
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