Resumen de la plática

Plants are constantly surrounded by microbes in the soil, thereby shaping their fitness and soil environment. Among these, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM) have developed long-term partnerships with the plants since the beginning of land colonisation. Even now, 80% of land plants, including many crops, maintain this relationship, illustrating its diverse advantages for their survival. In nature, it serves as a main route for nutrient provision. AM fungi provide nitrogen and phosphate to plants in exchange for carbon fixed by photosynthesis. Additionally, AM host plants gain resilience when facing various abiotic and biotic challenges, such as drought. Therefore, AM symbiosis can be a prime breeding target for modern agriculture to reduce inorganic fertiliser input while promoting crop resilience.
However, symbiosis is a highly dynamic process. Various environmental conditions alter the quantity and quality of their association. Therefore, it is vital to understand how these environmental conditions regulate the AM symbiosis programme. My lab investigates how nutrient contents and climate factors regulate AM symbiosis. In this seminar, I will present how AM symbiosis is shaped by two environmental factors: soil nutrients and water content.

Jeongmin Choi. Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, UK

https://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-jeongmin-choi

Frontiers in Genomics