title: Mycorrhizal symbioses: how to be seen as a good fungus.
abstract: Plants continually encounter many microorganisms. Some are good, but many are bad. Two studies show how beneficial fungi tell the plant to let them in and how the fungus avoids setting off the plant's defense reaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore Building, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. ian.sanders@unil.ch
authors.forename: Ian R
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D055399:Laccaria / Q000235:genetics*; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins