Table 2.

Mycorrhizal fungi response to metal contamination.

AMF species	Host Plant	Heavy metal	Mechanism	Reference
Funneliformis mosseae	Pepper	Cu	Promote photosynthesis rate and dry mass production	(Ruscitti et al., 2017)
Indigenous mycorrhiza	Wheat	Zn	Promote plant growth thus regulate nutrient uptake	(Zhang et al., 2016)
Glomus versiforme, Rhizophagus intraradices	Lotus japonica	Cd	Increase P nutrition and antioxidants activity	(Jiang et al., 2016)
Rhizophagus intraradices	Brachiaria mutica	Cr	Accumulate Cr in roots and reduced its translocation towards shoots	(Kullu et al., 2020)
Rhizophagus intraradices	Medicago truncatula	Pb	Immobilize Pb in the cell wall by increasing polysaccharides content in cell	(Zhang et al., 2021)
Rhizophagus irregularis	Willows	Pb and Cu	Immobilize metals in soil	(Dagher et al., 2020)
Mixed species	Carrot and lettuce	Sb	Phytoremediation of Sb	(Pierart et al., 2018)
Rhizophagus intraradices	Pea	As	Regulate Arsenate transporter in root epidermis cells and reduced its uptake	(Alam et al., 2020)
Mixed species	Mung bean	As	Mitigate As toxicity effect on plant growth	(Alam et al., 2019)
Rhizophagus irregularis	Medicago truncatula	Zn	Stimulate the MtPT4 gene expression and upregulate P uptake and create dilution effect	(Watts-Williams et al., 2017)
Claroideoglomus and Rhizophagus spp.	Bread wheat	Cd	Reduced its accumulation in wheat grains	(Baghaie et al., 2019)