The role of the motile tubular vacuole system in mycorrhizal fungi

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作者
Ashford, AE
Allaway, WG [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sydney, Sch Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[2] Univ New S Wales, Sch Biol Sci, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
关键词
cytoskeleton; motile tubular vacuole; mycorrhiza; nutrient transport; polyphosphate;
D O I
10.1023/A:1020271121683
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S3 [农学(农艺学)];
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0901 ;
摘要
Mycorrhizal fungi, to be effective for the plant, must be able to transfer mineral nutrient elements from sites of uptake at hyphal tips across various distances to the exchange region in the mycorrhiza. Vacuoles are likely to be important in this transport, since they contain elements of nutritional significance in abundance. In tip cells of hyphae of most fungi-known to include three ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes, an ericoid mycobiont, and two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-the vacuoles form a motile tubular reticulum. The vacuoles are most active in hyphal tips, but non-motile vacuoles at a distance from the tip can be induced to become motile by environmental changes. Neither the tubular vacuolar reticulum nor its contents are properly preserved by conventional fixation and embedding. Vacuolar tubules are readily shown in vivo with fluorescent tracers, throughout the extramatrical mycelium and in outer hyphae of the sheath in eucalypt mycorrhizas synthesised with Pisolithus sp., but they have proved harder to label in field-collected ectomycorrhizas and ericoid mycorrhizas. Freeze-substitution does preserve the structure of vacuoles and vacuolar tubules, and careful anhydrous techniques allow them to be microanalysed, indicating high content of K and P in vacuoles of hyphal tips, and also in sheath and Hartig net of ectomycorrhizas. Vacuoles contain polyphosphate in diffuse, non-granular form. Polyphosphate is present right up to the tip region of hyphae as well as in sheath and Hartig net: thus important mineral nutrient elements are present at both ends of the long hyphal transport pathway. Exactly what happens in between, however, remains to be elucidated.
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