Global sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

M Öpik, M Zobel, JJ Cantero, J Davison, JM Facelli… - Mycorrhiza, 2013 - Springer
We aimed to enhance understanding of the molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi (AMF) by building a new global dataset targeting previously unstudied geographical …

GlobalAMFungi: a global database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal occurrences from high‐throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies

T Větrovský, Z Kolaříková, C Lepinay… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are crucial mutualistic symbionts of the majority of plant
species, with essential roles in plant nutrient uptake and stress mitigation. The importance of …

Environmental identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi using the LSU rDNA gene region: an expanded database and improved pipeline

CS Delavaux, RJ Ramos, SL Sturmer, JD Bever - Mycorrhiza, 2022 - Springer
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF; Glomeromycota) are difficult to culture; therefore,
establishing a robust amplicon-based approach to taxa identification is imperative to …

Selectivity by host plants affects the distribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: evidence from ITS rDNA sequence metadata

H Yang, Y Zang, Y Yuan, J Tang, X Chen - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2012 - Springer
Background Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can form obligate symbioses with the vast
majority of land plants, and AMF distribution patterns have received increasing attention …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales

S Horn, T Caruso, E Verbruggen, MC Rillig… - The ISME …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Next-generation sequencing technologies with markers covering the full Glomeromycota
phylum were used to uncover phylogenetic community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal …

Biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota): a phylogenetic perspective on species distribution patterns

SL Stürmer, JD Bever, JB Morton - Mycorrhiza, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Information on the biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is important
because this group of obligately symbiotic soil microbes is a ubiquitous and functionally …

Large‐scale parallel 454 sequencing reveals host ecological group specificity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreonemoral forest

M Öpik, M Metsis, TJ Daniell, M Zobel… - New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Knowledge of the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in natural ecosystems is a
major bottleneck in mycorrhizal ecology. Here, we aimed to apply 454 sequencing …

PacBio sequencing of Glomeromycota rDNA: a novel amplicon covering all widely used ribosomal barcoding regions and its applicability in taxonomy and ecology of …

Z Kolaříková, R Slavíková, C Krüger, M Krüger… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There is no consensus barcoding region for determination of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal
(AMF) taxa. To overcome this obstacle, we have developed an approach to sequence an …

Macroecology of microbes–biogeography of the Glomeromycota

VB Chaudhary, MK Lau, NC Johnson - … : state of the art, genetics and …, 2008 - Springer
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are among the most abundant soil microorganisms,
associating with 95% of plant families and occurring on all continents of the globe (Smith …

The online database MaarjAM reveals global and ecosystemic distribution patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota)

M Öpik, A Vanatoa, E Vanatoa, M Moora… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we describe a new database, MaarjAM, that summarizes publicly available
Glomeromycota DNA sequence data and associated metadata. The goal of the database is …