Reposted by Nataliya Bilyera
🌱🧬 P-starved Arabidopsis roots release malate to recruit Acinetobacter bacteria. On the rhizoplane, these microbes help unlock inaccessible phosphorus.
This partnership boosts plant P nutrition—showing mutualism beyond mycorrhizae. #plantscience @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Mutually beneficial interactions between bacteria and Arabidopsis promote phosphorus nutrition and growth
Over 20% of root-associated bacteria promote Arabidopsis seedling growth under phosphorus
(P) deficiency in a host-dependent manner. Further analyses showed that P-deficient
plants secrete malate to a...