Orchids and their mycorrhizal fungi: an insufficiently explored relationship

• Published in: Mycorrhiza Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 5 - 22
• Main Authors: Favre-Godal, Quentin, Gourguillon, Lorène, Lordel-Madeleine, Sonia, Gindro, Katia, Choisy, Patrick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Agriculture; Analytical chemistry; Arbuscular mycorrhizas; Bioactive compounds; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Chemical Sciences; Colonization; Crosstalk; Ecological function; Ecology; Endophytes; Flavonoids; Forestry; Fungi; Genomics; Life Sciences; Metabolites; Metabolomics; Microbiology; Molecular interactions; Myc protein; Mycorrhizae; Orchidaceae; Phytohormones; Plant Sciences; Proteomics; Review; Secondary metabolites; Symbionts; Symbiosis; Symbiosis; Endophytes; Orchid mycorrhizal fungi; Orchidaceae

Orchids are associated with diverse fungal taxa, including nonmycorrhizal endophytic fungi as well as mycorrhizal fungi. The orchid mycorrhizal (OM) symbiosis is an excellent model for investigating the biological interactions between plants and fungi due to their high dependency on these symbionts...