A Versatile Monosaccharide Transporter That Operates in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Glomus sp Is Crucial for the Symbiotic Relationship with Plants
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...Mycorrhizal fungus Glomus high-affinity MST2 has been identified as a major player in sugar uptake with a critical function in the establishment of symbiosis (Helber et al., 2011; Doidy et al., 2012)....
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...No secreted invertase or sucrose transporter was identified, implying that this fungus likely relies on the host plant to provide monosaccharides as a carbon source (27)....
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...…knockdown of a Medicago sucrose synthase gene expressed in arbusculated cells, as well as host-induced gene silencing of the fungal monosaccharide transporter MST2, caused the formation of stunted arbuscules reminiscent of those formed in the pt4 mutant (Baier et al. 2010, Helber et al. 2011)....
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..., and of PT4, a mycorrhizaspecific plant P transporter, are correlated (23)....
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...Phylogenetic Analysis Phylogenetic analyses were conducted using Mega 4.0 software and ClustalW for the alignment and the neighbor-joining method for the construction of the phylogeny (Tamura et al., 2007)....
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...For MST2 silencing via the plant host, 300 bp of theMST2 cDNA, starting from the ATG, was amplified using the primers RNAiMST2-F1_and RNAiMST2_R1 and recombined in the Gateway binary RNAi vector pK7GWIWG2D(II) (Karimi et al., 2002)....
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...Host-Induced Gene Silencing (HIGS) For MST2 silencing via the plant host, 300 bp of theMST2 cDNA, starting from the ATG, was amplified using the primers RNAiMST2-F1_and RNAiMST2_R1 and recombined in the Gateway binary RNAi vector pK7GWIWG2D(II) (Karimi et al., 2002)....
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...Indications of the use of Xyl as a carbon source in the AM symbiosis are found in the work of Schliemann et al. (2008), who described an increased content of xylitol in M. truncatula mycorrhizal roots from 35 days after inoculation (DAI) onward, although at very low levels....
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...Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are obligate biotrophs that form one of the most widespread and ancient mutualistic symbioses with plant roots (Remy et al., 1994)....
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