How Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Shape Plant Root Morphology: A Global Meta-Analysis

Affiliations

¹ State Key Lab for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agri-Biological Resources, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
² Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
³ College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Ruixuan Zhu et al. Plant Cell Environ. 2025 Nov.

. 2025 Nov;48(11):7879-7881.

doi: 10.1111/pce.70082. Epub 2025 Jul 23.

¹ State Key Lab for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agri-Biological Resources, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
² Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
³ College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

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