Botanical Institute, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.

Mycorrhizal networks: common goods of plants shared under unequal terms of trade.

Published in Plant physiology

Plants commonly live in a symbiotic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). They invest photosynthetic products to feed their fungal partners, which, in return, provide mineral nutrients foraged in the soil by their intricate hyphal networks. Intriguingly, AMF can link neighboring plants, forming common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs). Wha...