Mycorrhizal fungi affect orchid distribution and population dynamics

MK McCormick, DF Whigham… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and influence individual plants and populations. Orchids
have life history stages that depend fully or partially on fungi for carbon and other essential …

Current insight into traditional and modern methods in fungal diversity estimates

AK Gautam, RK Verma, S Avasthi, Sushma, Y Bohra… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungi are an important and diverse component in various ecosystems. The methods to
identify different fungi are an important step in any mycological study. Classical methods of …

GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, D Morais, P Kohout, C Lepinay, C Algora… - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

Soil fungal assemblage complexity is dependent on soil fertility and dominated by deterministic processes

J Guo, N Ling, Z Chen, C Xue, L Li, L Liu… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the processes controlling ecosystem fertility, fungi are increasingly acknowledged as key
drivers. However, our understanding of the rules behind fungal community assembly …

Relationships between plant diversity and soil microbial diversity vary across taxonomic groups and spatial scales

L Liu, K Zhu, N Wurzburger, J Zhang - Ecosphere, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diversity has long been assumed to predict soil microbial diversity. However,
contradictory results have been found when examining their relationships, particularly at …

High‐throughput identification and diagnostics of pathogens and pests: overview and practical recommendations

L Tedersoo, R Drenkhan, S Anslan… - Molecular ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput identification technologies provide efficient tools for understanding the
ecology and functioning of microorganisms. Yet, these methods have been only rarely used …

Fertility‐related interplay between fungal guilds underlies plant richness–productivity relationships in natural grasslands

W Chen, J Wang, Z Meng, R Xu, J Chen… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The plant richness–productivity relationship is a central subject in ecology, yet the
mechanisms behind this pattern remain debated. Soil fungi are closely associated with the …

Vegetation, pH and water content as main factors for shaping fungal richness, community composition and functional guilds distribution in soils of Western Greenland

F Canini, L Zucconi, C Pacelli, L Selbmann… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Fungi are the most abundant and one of the most diverse components of arctic soil
ecosystems, where they are fundamental drivers of plant nutrient acquisition and recycling …

The Endophytic Fungi Diversity, Community Structure, and Ecological Function Prediction of Sophora alopecuroides in Ningxia, China

R Wang, Q Zhang, M Ju, S Yan, Q Zhang, P Gu - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sophora alopecuroides L. has great medicinal and ecological value in northwestern China.
The host and its microbiota are mutually symbiotic, collectively forming a holobiont …

Biogeography and community assembly of soil fungi from alpine meadows in southwestern China show the importance of climatic selection

YJ Liu, S Gong, YB Wang, ZL Yang, WH Hu… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil fungi are pivotal in alpine and arctic ecosystems that are vulnerable to climate changes.
Previous studies have shown broad connections between soil fungi in the arctic and alpine …