Combinatorial reprogramming of lipid metabolism in plants: a way towards mass-production of bio-fortified arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculants.
2020
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are among the most ancient, widespread and functionally important symbioses on Earth that help feed the world. Yet, mass-production of clean (i.e. in vitro produced), safe and robust inoculum at affordable costs remains a critical challenge. Very recently, Luginbuehl et al. (2017) found that plants supply lipids to the symbiotic partner, thus 'providing the AMF with a robust source of carbon for their metabolic needs'. Hence, engineering plants for enhanced delivery of lipids to AMF could represent an innovative avenue to produce a novel generation of high-quality and cost-effective bio-fortified AMF inoculants for application in agro-ecosystems.
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
24
References
1
Citations
NaN
KQI