A small secreted protein serves as a plant-derived effector mediating symbiosis between Populus and Laccaria bicolor

Acknowledgements

The writing of this manuscript was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Genomic Science Program, as part of the Secure Ecosystem Engineering and Design Scientific (SEED) Focus Area and the Plant-Microbe Interfaces (PMI) Scientific Focus Area. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract Number DE-AC05-00OR22725.

2 Authors’ Contributions

X.Y., F.M., and C.V-F, conceived, designed, and supervised the project, and reviewed and edited the manuscript. F.M. and P.E.A. reviewed and edited the manuscript. Y.L. conceived, designed, and performed experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. F. Z. conducted the yeast two hybrid library screening, bimolecular fluorescence complementation, and protein colocalization experiments. H.L., M.H., and G.Y. generated the transgenic plants used in this study. A.D. helped with the root phenotyping experiment. C.V-F., R.P., and T.A.R., helped with the ectomycorrhizal root tip analysis. R.R., R.A., and T.I. helped with the propagation of transgenic plants. All authors read and contributed to the content, edited, and reviewed the manuscript.

Data availability

All data supporting this study are available in the article.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article.

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