Most plants only thrive in intimate associations with fungi-or arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi-and engage in mutualistic nutrient exchange with the plant. Some AM fungi have recently been discovered to have their own bacterial symbionts. Ghignone et al. have explored the genome of a newly discovered species of rod-shaped endobacterium that lives within vacuoles of the Gigaspora margarita AM fungus.
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