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Bacterial farming by the fungus Morchella crassipes

Pion, Martin ; Spangenberg, Jorge E ; Simon, Anaele ; Bindschedler, Saskia ; Flury, Coralie ; Chatelain, Auriel ; Bshary, Redouan ; Job, Daniel ; Junier, Pilar

In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013, vol. 280, no. 1173, p. 20132242

The interactions between bacteria and fungi, the main actors of the soil microbiome, remain poorly studied. Here, we show that the saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal soil fungus Morchella crassipes acts as a bacterial farmer of Pseudomonas putida, which serves as a model soil bacterium. Farming by M. crassipes consists of bacterial dispersal, bacterial rearing with fungal...