High throughput sequencing of PCR amplicons derived from environmental DNA (aka DNA
metabarcoding) has become an integral part of fungal ecology, enabling in-depth …

Global vegetation regimes vary in belowground carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics.
However, disentangling large‐scale climatic controls from the effects of intrinsic plant–soil …

Mycorrhizal fungi can help plants to cope with drought, but research on the fungal
communities that are more resistant to drought or alleviate drought stress of trees is still …

Next‐generation biomonitoring proposes to combine machine‐learning algorithms with
environmental DNA data to automate the monitoring of the Earth's major ecosystems. In the …

All plant tissues from leaves, stems, and roots are hosting a wide diversity of fungal species.
Our understanding of the assembly of this diversity of fungi during the plant growth cycle is …

Background Amplicon-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) has rapidly gained
popularity as a powerful method for delineating taxa in complex communities, including …

Ectomycorrhizal exploration types are commonly assumed to denote spatial foraging
patterns and resource‐related niches of extraradical mycelia. However, empirical evidence …

Many plant species develop fruits to attract animals that will eat them and then disperse the
seeds. However, there are many plant species, whose seeds are dispersed …

For more than a century, lichens have been used as an example of dual-partner symbiosis.
Recently, this has been challenged by the discovery of various basidiomycetous yeasts that …

In forest nurseries, foliar fungi play a key role in the health of tree seedlings. The aim of this
study was to study the diversity and the development of foliar fungal species associated with …