Comparative fungal community analyses using metatranscriptomics and internal transcribed spacer amplicon sequencing from Norway spruce

AN Schneider, J Sundh, G Sundström, K Richau… - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The health, growth, and fitness of boreal forest trees are impacted and improved by their
associated microbiomes. Microbial gene expression and functional activity can be assayed …

Serendipitous Meta-Transcriptomics: The Fungal Community of Norway Spruce (Picea abies)

N Delhomme, G Sundström, N Zamani, H Lantz… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
After performing de novo transcript assembly of> 1 billion RNA-Sequencing reads obtained
from 22 samples of different Norway spruce (Picea abies) tissues that were not surface …

Prospects and challenges for fungal metatranscriptomics of complex communities

CR Kuske, CN Hesse, JF Challacombe, D Cullen… - Fungal Ecology, 2015 - Elsevier
The ability to extract and purify messenger RNA directly from plants, decomposing organic
matter and soil, followed by high-throughput sequencing of the pool of expressed genes …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial community response to growing season and plant nutrient optimisation in a boreal Norway spruce forest

JC Haas, NR Street, A Sjödin, NM Lee… - Soil Biology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Interactions between Norway spruce trees and bacteria and fungi in nutrient limited boreal
forests can be beneficial for tree growth and fitness. Tree-level effects of anthropogenic …

RNA‐based analyses reveal fungal communities structured by a senescence gradient in the moss Dicranum scoparium and the presence of putative multi‐trophic …

KH Chen, HL Liao, AE Arnold, G Bonito… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Diverse plant‐associated fungi are thought to have symbiotrophic and saprotrophic states
because they can be isolated from both dead and living plant tissues. However, such tissues …

Belowground fungal community diversity and composition associated with Norway spruce along an altitudinal gradient

ME Schön, K Nieselt, S Garnica - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Altitudinal gradients provide valuable information about the effects of environmental
variables on changes in species richness and composition as well as the distribution of …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat and tree species identity shape aboveground and belowground fungal communities in central European forests

B Hofmann, L Dreyling, F Dal Grande, J Otte… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Trees interact with fungi in mutualistic, saprotrophic, and pathogenic
relationships. With their extensive aboveground and belowground structures, trees provide …

High-throughput sequencing shows high fungal diversity and community segregation in the rhizospheres of container-grown conifer seedlings

A Menkis, D Burokienė, J Stenlid, E Stenström - Forests, 2016 - mdpi.com
Forest nurseries in Sweden produce ca. 360 million seedlings of Pinus sylvestris L. and
Picea abies (L.) Karst. annually. Fungi represent the largest microbial component in …

Metatranscriptomics as a tool to identify fungal species and subspecies in mixed communities–a proof of concept under laboratory conditions

VR Marcelino, L Irinyi, JS Eden, W Meyer, EC Holmes… - IMA fungus, 2019 - Springer
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) enables the generation of large amounts of genome
sequence data at a reasonable cost. Organisms in mixed microbial communities can now be …

Metatranscriptomics reveals unsuspected protistan diversity in leaf litter across temperate beech forests, with Amoebozoa the dominating lineage

C Voss, AM Fiore-Donno, MA Guerreiro… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Forest litter harbors complex networks of microorganisms whose major components are
bacteria, fungi and protists. Protists, being highly selective consumers of bacteria and fungi …