Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects

L Tedersoo, B Lindahl - Environmental microbiology reports, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are the key players in ecosystems as well as in plant and human health. High‐
throughput molecular identification of fungi has greatly progressed our understanding about …

Chronic nitrogen additions fundamentally restructure the soil fungal community in a temperate forest

EW Morrison, SD Frey, JJ Sadowsky, LTA van Diepen… - Fungal Ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Fungi dominate the microbial biomass of temperate forest soils and are a key driver of
ecosystem nutrient cycling. Chronic nitrogen (N) amendments frequently cause the …

Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic

F Cox, KK Newsham, R Bol, JAJ Dungait… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctica's extreme environment and geographical isolation offers a useful platform for
testing the relative roles of environmental selection and dispersal barriers influencing fungal …

Responses of soil fungi to 5-year conservation tillage treatments in the drylands of northern China

Z Wang, Q Chen, L Liu, X Wen, Y Liao - Applied soil ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil fungi have many important ecological functions such as decomposition of soil organic
matter and facilitation of nutrient turnover and availability in agricultural soils, which can be …

[HTML][HTML] Soil metaproteomics reveals an inter-kingdom stress response to the presence of black truffles

E Zampieri, M Chiapello, S Daghino, P Bonfante… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
For some truffle species of the Tuber genus, the symbiotic phase is often associated with the
presence of an area of scant vegetation, commonly known as the brûlé, around the host tree …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal communities in sediments of subtropical Chinese seas as estimated by DNA metabarcoding

W Li, MM Wang, XG Wang, XL Cheng, JJ Guo… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Ribosomal RNA internal transcribed spacer-1 (ITS1) metabarcoding was used to investigate
the distribution patterns of fungal communities and the factors influencing these patterns in …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in fungal microbiome (mycobiome) and aflatoxins during simulated storage of in-shell peanuts and peanut kernels

F Xing, N Ding, X Liu, JN Selvaraj, L Wang, L Zhou… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) sequencing was used to characterize the
peanut mycobiome during 90 days storage at five conditions. The fungal diversity in in-shell …

Soil microbial communities of three major Chinese truffles in southwest China

Y Fu, X Li, Q Li, H Wu, C Xiong, Q Geng… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Tuber pseudoexcavatum, Tuber sinoaestivum, and Tuber indicum are the 3 most important
truffles growing in southeast China; however, their cultivation is still inefficient owing to the …

[HTML][HTML] Mycofier: a new machine learning-based classifier for fungal ITS sequences

L Delgado-Serrano, S Restrepo, JR Bustos… - BMC Research …, 2016 - Springer
Background The taxonomic and phylogenetic classification based on sequence analysis of
the ITS1 genomic region has become a crucial component of fungal ecology and diversity …

Cheatgrass invasion alters the abundance and composition of dark septate fungal communities in sagebrush steppe

CA Gehring, M Hayer, L Flores-Rentería, AF Krohn… - Botany, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
Invasive, non-native plant species can alter soil microbial communities in ways that
contribute to their persistence. While most studies emphasize mycorrhizal fungi, invasive …