Plants transfer lipids to sustain colonization by mutualistic mycorrhizal and parasitic fungi

Authors: Yina Jiang, Wanxiao Wang, Qiujin Xie, Na Liu, Lixia Liu, Dapeng Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Chen Yang, Xiao‐Ya Chen, Dingzhong Tang, Ertao Wang - Science 2017 cited by 900

and are required for colonization by pathogens. We suggest that the mutualistic mycorrhizal and pathogenic fungi similarly recruit the fatty acid biosynthesis program to facilitate host invasion.