[HTML][HTML] Relative abundances of species or sequence variants can be misleading: soil fungal communities as an example

L Beule, M Arndt, P Karlovsky - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant production systems that are more sustainable than conventional monoculture
croplands are the vision of future agriculture. With numerous environmental benefits …

Soil fungal communities respond to grassland plant community richness and soil edaphics

N LeBlanc, LL Kinkel, HC Kistler - Microbial Ecology, 2015 - Springer
Fungal communities in soil have significant influences on terrestrial ecosystem dynamics,
yet our understanding of the drivers of fungal diversity and community structure in soil is …

[HTML][HTML] Generalist taxa shape fungal community structure in cropping ecosystems

JT Wang, JP Shen, LM Zhang, BK Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fungi regulate nutrient cycling, decomposition, symbiosis, and pathogenicity in cropland
soils. However, the relative importance of generalist and specialist taxa in structuring soil …

Accurate estimation of fungal diversity and abundance through improved lineage-specific primers optimized for Illumina amplicon sequencing

DL Taylor, WA Walters, NJ Lennon… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
While high-throughput sequencing methods are revolutionizing fungal ecology, recovering
accurate estimates of species richness and abundance has proven elusive. We sought to …

DNA template dilution impacts amplicon sequencing-based estimates of soil fungal diversity

SC Castle, Z Song, DM Gohl, JLM Gutknecht… - …, 2018 - Am Phytopath Society
Next generation sequencing of taxonomically relevant marker genes has enabled
researchers to sample the richness, diversity, and composition of environmental …

Different amplicon targets for sequencing-based studies of fungal diversity

F De Filippis, M Laiola, G Blaiotta… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Target-gene amplicon sequencing is the most exploited high-throughput sequencing
application in microbial ecology. The targets are taxonomically relevant genes, with 16S …

Plant genotypic diversity does not beget root-fungal species diversity

D Johnson, IC Anderson, A Williams, R Whitlock… - Plant and Soil, 2010 - Springer
The number of genetically distinct individuals within a community is a key component of
biodiversity and yet its impact at different trophic levels, especially upon the diversity of …

Contrasting latitudinal diversity and co-occurrence patterns of soil fungi and plants in forest ecosystems

Y Hu, SD Veresoglou, L Tedersoo, T Xu, T Ge… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The diversity patterns of plants at large scale are broadly documented, but that of soil fungi
remains elusive. Limited reports on soil fungal biogeography mainly are based on species …

Fungal community analysis by large-scale sequencing of environmental samples

HE O'Brien, JL Parrent, JA Jackson… - Applied and …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungi are an important and diverse component of soil communities, but these communities
have proven difficult to study in conventional biotic surveys. We evaluated soil fungal …

Fungal soil communities in a young transgenic poplar plantation form a rich reservoir for fungal root communities

L Danielsen, A Thürmer, P Meinicke… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Fungal communities play a key role in ecosystem functioning. However, only little is known
about their composition in plant roots and the soil of biomass plantations. The goal of this …