A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam · +13 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract For nearly 450 million years, mycorrhizal fungi have constructed networks to collect and trade nutrient resources with plant roots 1,2 . Owing to their dependence on host-derived carbon, these fungi face conflicting trade-offs in building networks that balance construction costs against geographical coverage and long-distance resource transport to and from roots 3 . How they navigate these design challenges is unclear 4 . Here, to monitor the construction of living trade networks, we built a custom-designed robot for high-throughput time-lapse imaging that could track over 500,000 fungal nodes simultaneously. We then measured around 100,000 cytoplasmic flow trajectories inside the networks. We found…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 58.18
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 68
Authors
28- LOLoreto Oyarte GálvezCorresponding
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- CBCorentin Bisot
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, Laboratoire Reproduction et Développement des Plantes
- PBPhilippe Bourrianne
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Princeton University, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, Sorbonne Paris Cité, ESPCI Paris
- RIRachael I.M. Cargill
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- MKMalin Klein
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Topics & keywords
- Traveling wave
- Biology
- Environmental science
- Mathematics
- Mathematical analysis