Soil fungi in close contact with plant roots or other organs in a mutualistic symbiosis, providing mineral nutrients to the plant, and gaining carbon energy in return. Terrestrial Non-marine geological environments, including freshwater as well as land. ...
Critically, we lack experimental evidence for the func- tional nature of the intimate association between early land plant clades and the Glomeromycota, the ancient phylum of fungi that exclusively forms the ancestral arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) sym- biosis14. Moreover, arbuscules, the defining ...