Physiological response of mycorrhizal symbiosis to soil pollutants

Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and mycoremediated dry olive residue in lead uptake in wheat plants

“…Thus, Pb, which is transported to the cytosol across the cell wall and cell membrane via active metabolism, is accumulated inside the cell and/or via passive metabolism by which Pb adheres to fungal surface molecules (sorption) (Mishra and Malik, 2013), which could also explain the decrease in root biomass. However, the binding of Pb to fungal tissues associated with roots could be involved in creating a physical barrier against Pb translocation to the plant (García-Sánchez et al, 2016).…”