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Ion transport across mycorrhizal membranes

Reference	P15065
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Frans Maathuis
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Alastair Fitter, Dr Michael Schultze
Institution	University of York
Department	Biology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	194,900
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	20/08/2001
End date	19/08/2004
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Most terrestrial plants form mycorrhizal associations, important for the acquisition of plant phosphorus (P) and other nutrients. Formation and functioning of such associations can therefore have far reaching consequences for agriculture. Yet, very little is known about the fundamental mechanisms that are involved in transport of nutrients to either plant or fungal symbiont. Mycorrhizal associations that differ in their plant benefit in terms of both plant growth and plant P content, are ideal to study how mycorrhizae benefit plant growth, by (a) quantifying P uptake and P accumulation in fungi and plants (32P assays) (b) characterising and comparing P-uptake in the various mycobionts (V-clamp assays) (c) study capacity for photosynthate transfer in internal hyphae and arbuscules (Em recordings) (d) define molecular transport mechanisms for P and other nutrients in external and internal hyphae (patch clamp experiments).

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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