Antarctic root endophytes improve physiological performance and yield in crops under salt stress by enhanced energy production and Na+ sequestration

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Molina Montenegro, Marco A., Acuña Rodríguez, Ian S., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Gundel, Pedro Emilio, Dreyer, Ingo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research
• Subjects: FUNCTIONAL SYMBIOSIS; ANTARCTIC FUNGAL ENDOPHYTES; STRESS TOLERANCE; SODIUM; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4; Acuña; Antarctic; Molina; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/184516

Climatic change is pointed as one of the major challenges for global food security. Based on current models of climate change, reduction in precipitations and in turn, increase in the soil salinity will be a sharp constraint for crops productivity worldwide. In this context, root fungi appear as a n...