Evidence for the evolution of native plant response to mycorrhizal fungi in post‐agricultural grasslands

ABSTRACT: Abstract Plant–microbe interactions play an important role in structuring plant communities. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are particularly important. Nonetheless, increasing anthropogenic disturbance will lead to novel plant–AMF interactions, altering longstanding co‐evolutionary trajectories between plants and their associated AMF. Although emerging work shows that plant–AMF response can evolve over relatively short time scales due to anthropogenic change, little work has evaluated how plant AMF response specificity may evolve due to novel plant–mycorrhizal interactions. Here, we examine changes in plant–AMF interactions in novel grassland systems by comparing the mycorrhizal response of plant populations from unplowed native prairies with populations from post‐agricultural grasslan

SUBMITTER: Delavaux C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9273508 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature