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Mycorrhizal fungi

Appears in 34 processs and 81 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

Top processes

Mycorrhizal fungi network

6 steps

Start: Fungus meets root
End: Nutrients delivered and carbon paid
Fungal spore or hypha senses root signals
and 3 more in this process

Mycorrhizal carbon-for-nutrient exchange loop

6 steps

Start: Mycorrhizal carbon-for-nutrient exchange loop
End: Mycorrhizal carbon-for-nutrient exchange loop
Plant sends photosynthate to fungal partners
and 3 more in this process

Progressive nitrogen limitation under rising CO2

5 steps

Start: Progressive nitrogen limitation under rising CO2
End: Progressive nitrogen limitation under rising CO2
How plants meet the extra nitrogen demand
and 2 more in this process

Biological weathering by roots, mycorrhizal fungi and microbes (plants speed weathering about 2-10 fold)

5 steps

Reciprocal reward and sanctioning

4 steps

Start: Plant and fungus compare returns
End: Partner choice settled
Fungus allocates more phosphorus to roots that supply more carbon
and 1 more in this process

Common mycorrhizal networks: what the evidence supports and what it does not

4 steps

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Plant-soil feedback and species coexistence

4 steps

Biological uptake, litter return and mineralization

3 steps

Soil CO2 and biotic enhancement of weathering

3 steps

Nutrient-driven carbon allocation belowground

3 steps

Phosphorus decline and rescue across soil ages

3 steps

Hydraulic redistribution by roots (0.04-1.3 mm per day)

3 steps

Roots, fungi and burrowers engineer soil formation

3 steps

Living soil system

2 steps

Nutrient availability and leaching

2 steps

Terrestrial nutrient cycling

2 steps

Phosphorus cycling

2 steps

Mineral weathering and parent material

2 steps

Soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization turnover

2 steps

Mycorrhizal nutrient trade: phosphorus, nitrogen and carbon market

2 steps

Nitrogen and phosphorus supply and limitation

2 steps

Nutrient cycling

1 step

Biological uptake, litter return and mineralization

Nitrogen cycling

1 step

Plants and microbes assimilate N into organic matter

Soil sulfur cycling

1 step

Roots and mycorrhizal hyphae take up sulfate (plant S need is roughly 1/10 of N need)

Base cation cycling (calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium)

1 step

Roots take up potassium, calcium and magnesium (K readily, Ca mostly with the transpiration stream)

Root exudate chemistry, fate and priming

1 step

Signalling compounds released: flavonoids, strigolactones, benzoxazinoids, coumarins

Soil-plant-water coupling and drought response

1 step

Redistributed water supports shallow roots, mycorrhizae and nutrient uptake

Rhizosphere phosphorus mobilization: phosphatases, organic acids and fast re-sorption

1 step

Roots take up Phosphate by high-affinity PHT1 transporters, directly or through mycorrhizal hyphae

Microarthropods: springtails and oribatid mites as fungal grazers and litter processors

1 step

Grazing on mycorrhizal and saprotrophic hyphae changes how carbon moves through fungal networks

Organism-environment interactions

1 step

Plant-soil feedback and species coexistence

Controls on net primary production

1 step

Nutrient-driven carbon allocation belowground

Water movement

1 step

Hydraulic redistribution by roots (0.04-1.3 mm per day)

Weathering

1 step

Biological weathering by roots, mycorrhizal fungi and microbes (plants speed weathering about 2-10 fold)

Soil formation

1 step

Roots, fungi and burrowers engineer soil formation

Often found with

Plants 35 Plant roots 28 Phosphorus 22 Nitrogen 18 Carbon 17 Soil microbes 10 Organic acids 8 Water 7 Microbes 6 Host plant 6 Bacteria 6 Nutrients 5

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