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CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

Fungi and insects as models of extraordinary symbiosis

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Symbiosis among microorganisms represents an interesting relationship that takes different shapes. Obligatory, facultative, and endosymbiotic relationships have all been reported between different microorganisms. Whether it is mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism, understanding every association is of great importance to science and humanity. Knowing how these creatures benefit from each other may be useful for biocontrol purposes, or even for discovery of novel metabolites that result from these associations, and which may not be produced by the individual species. In this review, five examples of symbiosis were presented, including among the Laboulbeniales; Septobasidium; Ambrosia Fungi and Beetles; Leaf-cutter ants and their fungus gardens; and finally, termites and Termitomyces. Moreover, the benefits each partner is getting were highlighted, and uniqueness in every form of those symbiosis models was simply described.

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https://doi.org/10.5943/sif/6/1/36
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