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Ectomycorhize de pin sylvestre avec Laccaria laccata. Noter la forme bifide et la présence de mycélium frangeant. Mycorhize jeune.. © INRA, LE TACON François

Press release

30 May 2017

Symbioses between plants, fungi and bacteria: a new look at these ancestral alliances

A review appearing in the online edition of Science (26th May 2017), authored by three INRA researchers (associated with the Universities of Lorraine and Toulouse and the CNRS), starts with an overview of the rich evolutionary history of the principal mycorrhizal and nitrogen-fixing plant symbioses.

Poplar roots and the black mycelium and mycorrhizas formed by Cenococcum. © INRA, Martina Peter

Press release

07 Sep 2016

Symbiotic fungus helps plants to withstand drought

To understand the beneficial effect of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis on the resilience of trees to drought stress, an international consortium, led by INRA and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)1, sequenced the genome of the root symbiont Cenococcum geophilum and characterized its gene expression in symbiotic roots upon high drought stress.

Amanite tue-mouches (Amanita muscaria) est rès commune. Elle est fortement toxique (troubles digestifs et effets hallucinatoires) mais non mortelle.. © INRA, BOSSENNEC Jean-Marie

Press release

23 Feb 2015

Unearthing the Roots of Fungal Symbioses

To understand the bases of mutualistic symbiosis between soil mycorrhizal fungi and plants, an international consortium of researchers conducted the first broad, comparative phylogenomic analysis of mycorrhizal fungi.