2025/05/12 by Chuanfa Liu, Yilin Pan, Yuchen Fei +2 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis #Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions #Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/jipb.13931
openalex publication_date 2025/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A recent paper reported that fungi use Nudix effectors to disrupt plant phosphate sensing by breaking down inositol pyrophosphate signals, worsening disease, although the exact mechanism remains unclear. This commentary discusses these groundbreaking results and asks whether these effectors affect shoot-root communication and plant nutrition-immunity crosstalk.