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SUBMITTER: Bidartondo MI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3130224 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bidartondo Martin I MI Read David J DJ Trappe James M JM Merckx Vincent V Ligrone Roberto R Duckett Jeffrey G JG
Biology letters 20110309 4
The colonization of land by plants relied on fundamental biological innovations, among which was symbiosis with fungi to enhance nutrient uptake. Here we present evidence that several species representing the earliest groups of land plants are symbiotic with fungi of the Mucoromycotina. This finding brings up the possibility that terrestrialization was facilitated by these fungi rather than, as conventionally proposed, by members of the Glomeromycota. Since the 1970s it has been assumed, largely ...[more]