tailieunhanh - Review on Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: An approach to overcome drought adversities in plants

The ever changing environmental conditions have been faced by plants through evolutionary time, among which drought is considered as the most common having an adverse effect on growth and development of the plants which is one of the major constraints on plant productivity worldwide and is expected to increase with climatic changes. The symbiotic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and the roots of higher plants is widespread in nature. Several ecophysiological studies have demonstrated that AM symbiosis is a key component in helping plants to cope with water stress and in increasing drought resistance by bringing about various changes in the host plant at the morphological level like alterations in root morphology to form a direct pathway of water uptake by extra radical hyphae. | Review on Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: An approach to overcome drought adversities in plants