Influence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on morpho-biochemical characteristics, nutrient uptake, and transcriptomic profile of L. plant.

Unlabelled: The present study was carried out to observe the interaction between L. with AMF treatments at morphological, biochemical, and molecular levels. The plant was inoculated with , , , and , and also two consortia of  +  and  +  Morphological and biochemical parameters such as shoot height, root length, shoot fresh weight, shoot dry weight, fruit fresh weight, fruit dry weight, root fresh weigh, root dry weight, chlorophyll a and b, total soluble sugars, total soluble proteins were examined in this study. Uptake of some essential micronutrients was also analyzed in this study. In transcriptomics experiment, a total of 365 transcripts were commonly upregulated (≥ 1.5x) folds in in response to both the AMF isolates, while 44 transcripts were upregulated only in response to and 28 transcripts were upregulated only in response to . KEGG pathway analysis of treated with revealed carbon metabolism, cofactor biosynthesis and endocytosis as the dominant metabolic pathway, while analysis of treatment revealed glycerophospholipid and endocytosis metabolism as dominant metabolic pathways.

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13205-025-04247-z.