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Diversity and Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhization Fungi

Abstract:

Currently in ecosystems, plants have evolved together with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) for millions of years. The arbuscular mycorrhiza is a mutualistic symbiosis in which the plants provide carbohydrates to the fungi and these in turn the mineral nutrients available to the plant such as phosphorus and nitrogen. Considered as the most important fungi group in terrestrial ecosystems due to their symbiotic behavior, establishing symbiosis with most vascular plants. The following paper literature review is presented where some important aspects of the systematic taxonomy of AMF are mentioned, as currently reported by some groups of taxonomists of these fungi and some morphological characteristics such as a group of walls, shapes, color, etc., of this group of fungi., as well as its diversity and ecology of this symbiosis in natural ecosystems and agroecosystems.