The numbers of fungi: are the most speciose genera truly diverse?

CS Bhunjun, T Niskanen, N Suwannarach… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Fungi play vital roles in ecosystems as endophytes, pathogens and saprobes. The current
estimate of fungal diversity is highly uncertain, ranging from 1.5 to 12 million, but only …

A bioinformatics guide to plant microbiome analysis

R Lucaciu, C Pelikan, SM Gerner, C Zioutis… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent evidence for intimate relationship of plants with their microbiota shows that plants
host individual and diverse microbial communities that are essential for their survival …

Evolution of manipulative microbial behaviors in the rhizosphere

M Klein, JD Stewart, SS Porter… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth” because it
is a hotspot for interactions among millions of microbial cells. Many of these are microbes …

Taming the beast: a revised classification of Cortinariaceae based on genomic data

K Liimatainen, JT Kim, L Pokorny, PM Kirk, B Dentinger… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Family Cortinariaceae currently includes only one genus, Cortinarius, which is the largest
Agaricales genus, with thousands of species worldwide. The species are important …

Maintenance of host specialisation gradients in ectomycorrhizal symbionts

F Voller, A Ardanuy, AFS Taylor, D Johnson - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many fungi that form ectomycorrhizas exhibit a degree of host specialisation, and individual
trees are frequently colonised by communities of mycorrhizal fungi comprising species that …

Alien ectomycorrhizal plants differ in their ability to interact with co-introduced and native ectomycorrhizal fungi in novel sites

L Vlk, L Tedersoo, T Antl, T Větrovský… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Alien plants represent a potential threat to environment and society. Understanding the
process of alien plants naturalization is therefore of primary importance. In alien plants …

Comparative genomics and phylogenomic investigation of the class Geoglossomycetes provide insights into ecological specialization and the systematics of …

T Melie, S Pirro, AN Miller, SD Smith, KS Schutz… - Mycologia, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Despite their global presence and ubiquity, members of the class Geoglossomycetes
(Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota) are understudied systematically and ecologically. These …

Scale dependency of ectomycorrhizal fungal community assembly processes in Mediterranean mixed forests

G JL, A JM - Mycorrhiza, 2022 - Springer
The assembly of biological communities depends on deterministic and stochastic processes
whose influence varies across spatial and temporal scales. Although ectomycorrhizal (ECM) …

Community composition of arctic root-associated fungi mirrors host plant phylogeny

SS Botnen, E Thoen, PB Eidesen… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The number of plant species regarded as non-mycorrhizal increases at higher latitudes, and
several plant species in the High-Arctic Archipelago Svalbard have been reported as non …

Colonization of Naive Roots from Populus tremula × alba Involves Successive Waves of Fungi and Bacteria with Different Trophic Abilities

F Fracchia, L Mangeot-Peter, L Jacquot… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Through their roots, trees interact with a highly complex community of microorganisms
belonging to various trophic guilds and contributing to tree nutrition, development, and …