Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) can form symbiotic relationships with plants, aiding in plant
growth by providing access to nutrients and defense against phytopathogenic fungi. In this …

Since the earliest report by Frank (1885), in which he documented the benefit of
ectomycorrhizal fungi for their plant hosts, ecologists have been intrigued by the functional …

Summary Bacteria, ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi, and land plants have been coevolving for
nearly 200 million years, and their interactions presumably contribute to the function of …

Endemic species of ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are found throughout many biomes, but it is
unclear whether their localized distribution is dictated by habitat filtering or geographical …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi associated with plants constitute one of the most successful
symbiotic interactions in forest ecosystems. ECM support trophic exchanges with host plants …

While there has been significant progress characterizing the 'symbiotic toolkit'of
ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, how host specificity may be encoded into ECM fungal …

Interactions between symbiotic ectomycorrhizal (EM) and free‐living saprotrophs can result
in significant deceleration of leaf litter decomposition. While this phenomenon is widely …

Several thousand fungal species worlwide are thought to form ectomycorrhizas (ECM) with
tree hosts and there is currently much interest in determining the functional significance of …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi defy classification by scale. As hyphae, they experience heterogeneity
in the soil on a micron scale, while individuals can span meters. In this chapter, we seek to …

Recent studies have shown that changes in community compositions of ectomycorrhizal
(ECM) fungi along elevation gradients are mainly affected by changes in host tree …