The fungus-plant love affair

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are root symbionts that play a key role in plant growth. Agronomists Van Geel et al. show that a broad range of crops highly benefit from the inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. They also found that there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus for all plants. On the contrary, the fungus species should be adapted to the plant partner. Also they observed that the plant should be coupled with only one fungus species, not with a mixture of several fungal partners.

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