High specificity in plant leaf metabolic responses to arbuscular mycorrhiza

Rabea Schweiger, Markus C. Baier, Marcus Persicke and Caroline Müller ()
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Rabea Schweiger: Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25
Markus C. Baier: Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25
Marcus Persicke: Center for Biotechnology, Universitätsstraße 27
Caroline Müller: Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract The chemical composition of plants (phytometabolome) is dynamic and modified by environmental factors. Understanding its modulation allows to improve crop quality and decode mechanisms underlying plant–pest interactions. Many studies that investigate metabolic responses to the environment focus on single model species and/or few target metabolites. However, comparative studies using environmental metabolomics are needed to evaluate commonalities of chemical responses to certain challenges. We assessed the specificity of foliar metabolic responses of five plant species to the widespread, ancient symbiosis with a generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Here we show that plant species share a large ‘core metabolome’ but nevertheless the phytometabolomes are modulated highly species/taxon-specifically. Such a low conservation of responses across species highlights the importance to consider plant metabolic prerequisites and the long time of specific plant-fungus coevolution. Thus, the transferability of findings regarding phytometabolome modulation by an identical AM symbiont is severely limited even between closely related species.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4886

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