The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application

FM Martin, MGA van Der Heijden - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mycorrhizal symbioses between plants and fungi are vital for the soil structure, nutrient
cycling, plant diversity, and ecosystem sustainability. More than 250 000 plant species are …

Suillus: an emerging model for the study of ectomycorrhizal ecology and evolution

L Lofgren, NH Nguyen, PG Kennedy… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research on mycorrhizal symbiosis has been slowed by a lack of established study
systems. To address this challenge, we have been developing Suillus, a widespread …

Parallel Evolution of Asco- and Basidiomycete O-Prenyltransferases

T Schäfer, F Haun, M Gressler… - Journal of Natural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Prenyltransferases (PTs) are involved in the biosynthesis of a multitude of pharmaceutically
and agriculturally important plant, bacterial, and fungal compounds. Although numerous …

Impacts of nitrogen deposition on forest mycorrhizal communities

EA Lilleskov, TW Kuyper, MI Bidartondo… - … Nitrogen Deposition to …, 2024 - Elsevier
Humans have dramatically increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition globally. This
increase in N deposition is correlated with shifts from ectomycorrhizal to arbuscular …

Metabolic niches in the rhizosphere microbiome: dependence on soil horizons, root traits and climate variables in forest ecosystems

P Maitra, K Hrynkiewicz, A Szuba… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Understanding belowground plant-microbial interactions is important for biodiversity
maintenance, community assembly and ecosystem functioning of forest ecosystems …

Evolutionary history of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and genomic signatures of obligate symbiosis

A Rosling, S Eshghi Sahraei, F Kalsoom Khan… - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background The colonization of land and the diversification of terrestrial plants is intimately
linked to the evolutionary history of their symbiotic fungal partners. Extant representatives of …

High rate of gene family evolution in proximity to the origin of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis in Inocybaceae

FK Khan, M Sánchez‐García, H Johannesson… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The genomes of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi have a reduced number of genes encoding
Carbohydrate‐Active EnZymes (CAZymes), expansions in transposable elements (TEs) and …

LbSakA‐mediated phosphorylation of the scaffolding protein LbNoxR in the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria bicolor regulates NADPH oxidase activity, ROS …

L Shi, Z Wang, JH Chen, H Qiu, WD Liu… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, which involves mutually beneficial interactions between soil
fungi and tree roots, is essential for promoting tree growth. To establish this symbiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal decomposition and transformation of molecular and colloidal fractions of dissolved organic matter extracted from boreal forest soil

L Gentile, D Floudas, U Olsson, P Persson… - Soil Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a central role in soil carbon (C) dynamics, serving as
both a substrate for microbial decomposers and a source of material stabilised via physical …

Discovery of New Antimicrobial Metabolites in the Coculture of Medicinal Mushrooms

L Ji, L Tan, Z Shang, W Li, X Mo… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bioactivity screening revealed that the antifungal activities of EtOAc extracts from coculture
broths of Trametes versicolor SY630 with either Vanderbylia robiniophila SY341 or …