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  • Title: Options of partners improve carbon for phosphorus trade in the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism.
    Author: Argüello A, O'Brien MJ, van der Heijden MG, Wiemken A, Schmid B, Niklaus PA.
    Journal: Ecol Lett; 2016 Jun; 19(6):648-56. PubMed ID: 27074533.
    Abstract:
    The mutualism between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is widespread and has persisted for over 400 million years. Although this mutualism depends on fair resource exchange between plants and fungi, inequality exists among partners despite mechanisms that regulate trade. Here, we use (33) P and (14) C isotopes and a split-root system to test for preferential allocation and reciprocal rewards in the plant-AMF symbiosis by presenting a plant with two AMF that differ in cooperativeness. We found that plants received more (33) P from less cooperative AMF in the presence of another AMF species. This increase in (33) P resulted in a reduced (14) C cost per unit of (33) P from less cooperative AMF when alternative options were available. Our results indicate that AMF diversity promotes cooperation between plants and AMF, which may be an important mechanism maintaining the evolutionary persistence of and diversity within the plant-AMF mutualism.
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