“…Peas successfully form symbiotic relationships with two microbial symbionts: AM fungi and the diazotrophic root-nodulating bacteria, Rhizobium [ 21 , 22 , 23 ]. A significant part of the research on the tripartite symbiosis in legumes focused on the synergistic effects of the two symbionts on the growth, development and nutrition of plants [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 24 , 25 , 26 ] the processes of nodulation and colonization [ 8 , 22 , 27 ] and on signaling mechanisms between partners [ 9 ]. The establishment of a successful tripartite symbiosis results from bidirectional processes of signaling and exchange of bioactive molecules between plants [ 28 , 29 , 30 ], microbial partners [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ] and a series of events from molecular to the organ level controlled by the so-called “common pathway of symbiosis” [ 23 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 ].…”