Microbial ecology: Fungal foes and friends

N Louise Glass; Adriana M Rico-Ramírez

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.030

Microbial ecology: Fungal foes and friends

Curr Biol. 2022 Jan 24;32(2):R84-R86. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.030.

Authors

N Louise Glass¹, Adriana M Rico-Ramírez²

Affiliations

¹ The Plant and Microbial Biology Department, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; The Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: Lglass@berkeley.edu.
² The Plant and Microbial Biology Department, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

PMID: 35077695
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.030

Abstract

A tripartite interaction between soil fungi, soil bacteria that produce phenazines that are toxic to the fungi, and a second bacterium that sequesters and detoxifies phenazines illustrates the complexity of antagonistic and mutualistic bacterial-fungal interactions.

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MeSH terms

Bacteria
Friends
Fungi*
Humans
Phenazines
Soil
Soil Microbiology*

Substances

Phenazines
Soil