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Resumen de la comunicación oral presentada en: 9th Workshop Advances in Science and Technology of Bioresources. Univ. De la Frontera, Temucho, Chile. 29 noviembre - 1 diciembre (2022), Project RTI2018-098756-B-I00 and RTI2018-094350-B-C31 funded by MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033/ and by FEDER Una manera de hacer Europa

Phosphorus (P) is a poorly available macronutrient essential for plant growth and development and consequently for successful crop yield and ecosystem productivity. To cope with P limitations plants have evolved strategies for enhancing P uptake and/or improving P efficiency use. The universal 450-million-yr-old arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) (fungus-root) symbioses are one of the most successful and widespread strategies to maximize access of plants to available P. AM fungi biotrophically colonize the root cortex of most plant species and develop an extraradical mycelium which overgrows the nutrient depletion zone of the soil surrounding plant roots. This hyphal network is specialized in the acquisition of low mobility nutrients from soil, particularly P. During the last years, molecular biology techniques coupled to novel physiological approaches have provided fascinating contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms of symbiotic P transport. Mycorrhiza-specific plant phosphate transporters, which are required not only for symbiotic P transfer but also for maintenance of the symbiosis, have been identified. The present review provides an overview of the contribution of AM fungi to plant P acquisition and an update of recent findings on the physiological, molecular and regulatory mechanisms of P transport in the AM symbiosis. This work was supported by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Project AGL2015-67098-R).