Do plants drive podzolization via rock-eating mycorrhizal fungi?

By Nico van Breemen, U. Lundström, A. Jongmans. 2000

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Metals, minerals and microbes: geomicrobiology and bioremediation. (2010, unknown): “Ectomycorrhizal fungi can form narrow cylindrical pores in weatherable minerals in podzol E horizons, probably by exuding low-molecular-mass organic acids at their hyphal tips, causing local dissolution of aluminium silicates (Jongmans et al., 1997; Van Breemen et al., 2000).”
Geomycology: biogeochemical transformations of rocks, minerals, metals and radionuclides by fungi, bioweathering and bioremediation. (2007, unknown): “Ectomycorrhizal fungi could form micropores (3–10 mm) in weatherable minerals, and hyphal tips could produce micro- to millimolar concentrations of these organic acids (Jongmans et al. 1997; van Breemen et al. 2000; van Hees et al. 2003).”
Rock-eating mycorrhizas: their role in plant nutrition and biogeochemical cycles (2008, background): “…and the potential weathering capacity of EcM fungi raised novel questions regarding roles of EcM fungi in plant nutrition (especially uptake of base cations), biogeochemical processes and pedogenesis i.e. podzolisation (Van Breemen et al. 2000a; Van Breemen et al. 2000b; Landeweert et al. 2001).”