Contrasting mycorrhizal functionality in abiotic stress tolerance of woody species.

ABSTRACT: Current understanding of how woody plants respond to abiotic stress and how mycorrhizal interactions mitigate this stress is limited, as research has mostly focused on single stress factors. The diverse range of woody plants and mycorrhizal fungi, and the varying intensity and composition of multiple stress factors in different regions worldwide, have made it difficult to study these highly functional symbiotic interactions from a global perspective. Here, we used a top-down approach that involved partitioning known interactions into functional types, and mapping stress tolerances and interactions into overlapping heatmaps. We used a comprehensive dataset of 621 woody species' tolerance of shade, drought, waterlogging, and cold stress, as well as their mycorrhizal interaction data, to test

SUBMITTER: Laanisto L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11933406 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature