丛枝菌根共生体的氮代谢运输及其生态作用

Nitrogen metabolism and translocation in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiote and its ecological implications

丛枝菌根真菌能与80%的陆生维管植物形成互惠共生关系,共生体的存在对促进植物营养吸收和提高抗逆性具有重要意义.丛枝菌根真菌从宿主植物获取其光合产物碳水化合物的同时,通过外生菌丝吸收各种氮源,有效增强了宿主植物对氮素的吸收,以及氮在植物居群和群落水平上的交流,改善了植物营养代谢,增强了植物应对外界环境胁迫的能力.而共生体对氮的吸收、转运,以及氮从真菌到宿主植物的传输、代谢机制至今仍有许多问题亟待解决.本文综述了当前丛枝菌根共生体中氮传输代谢的主要机制,以及碳、磷对共生体氮传输代谢的影响;从群落和生态系统水平,简要阐述了丛枝菌根真菌在植物中氮分配的作用和对宿主植物的生态学意义,并提出共生体中氮代谢的一些需要深入研究的问题.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi （AMF） can form mutually beneficial relations with more than 80% of vascular plants, and the existence of the symbiote is of significance in promoting the growth and stress tolerance of host plants. AMF can obtain the photosynthate carbohydrates from host plants, and in the meantime, effectively promote the nitrogen （N） uptake by host plants via the absorption of various N sources by myeorrhiza mycelia, resulting in the N exchange at population or community level, the improvement of host plants nutrition and metabolism, and the strengthening of the stress tolerance of host plants. However, there are still in debates in which ways the symbiote absorbs and transfers N and what the mechanisms the N metabolism and translocation from AMF to host plants. This paper reviewed the mechanisms of N metabolism and transloeation in the symbiote and the effects of carbon and phosphorous on the N metabolism and translocation. The roles of AMF in the N allocation in host plants and the related ecological significance at community and ecosystem levels were briefly elucidated, and some issues to be further studied on the N metabolism in the symbiote were addressed.