Almost all land plants form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi. These below‐
ground fungi play a key role in terrestrial ecosystems as they regulate nutrient and carbon …

Stress is ubiquitous and disrupts homeostasis, leading to damage, decreased fitness, and
even death. Like other organisms, mycorrhizal fungi evolved mechanisms for stress …

Introduction Heavy metal pollution is a strong driver of above-and belowground communities
and triggers evolutionary adaptation in organisms. This review provides an overview of our …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are key players in forest carbon (C) sequestration, receiving a
substantial proportion of photosynthetic C from their forest tree hosts in exchange for plant …

Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are major microbial components of boreal, temperate and
Mediterranean forests, as well as some tropical forest ecosystems. Nearly two decades of …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are crucial for tree nitrogen (N) nutrition; however, mechanisms
governing N transfer from fungal tissues to the host plant are not well understood. ECM …

Island floras are generally characterized by disharmony due to uneven representations of
plant groups. This has usually been explained by the unequal capacity of plants to disperse …

In order to improve knowledge about the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in the
tolerance to heavy metals in ultramafic soils, the present study investigated the influence of …

Amanita muscaria is an ectomycorrhizal mushroom that commonly grows at metal-polluted
sites. Sporocarps from the lead smelter-polluted area near Příbram (Central Bohemia …

This study aimed to isolate, identify, and characterise metal-tolerant fungi colonising poplar
roots at a metal-contaminated phytoremediation site. Poplar roots were colonised by …