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Zhao P, Gao G, Ding G, Zhang Y, Ren Y. Fungal complexity and stability across afforestation areas in changing desert environments. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 912:169398. [PMID: 38114026 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
Abstract
The great achievements in combating desertification are attributed to large-scale afforestation, yet we lack verification of how the stability of the fungal community changes in afforestation areas in desert environments. Here, we present the fungal network structure from different niches (root and bulk soil) of plantations of Mongolian pine, a crucial species for afforestation introduced widely in desertification regions. We assessed changes in community complexity and stability of root-associated fungi (RAF) and soil fungi (SF) among different introduction sites: the Hulunbuir Desert (HB), the Horqin Desert (HQ) and the Mu Us Desert (MU). To illuminate the complexity and stability of the fungal network, the differences in topological properties, fungal function, and vegetation and environmental factors between introduction sites were fully considered. We showed that (1) the SF networks had more nodes and edges than the RAF networks. There was a lower ratio of negative:positive cohesion of RAF networks in HB and MU. For SF but not for RAF, across the three introduction sites, a higher modularity and ratio of negative:positive cohesion indicated higher stability. (2) Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi were the dominant functional group in the RAF network (especially in HQ), and were only significantly correlated with vegetation factor. There was a higher relative abundance and number of OTUs of saprophytic fungi in the SF network and they showed positive correlations with soil nutrients. (3) RAF and SF network complexity and stability showed different responses to environmental and vegetation variables. The key determinant of the complexity and stability of the SF networks in Mongolian pine plantations was soil nutrients, followed by climate conditions. The composition and structure of the RAF community was closely related to host plants. Therefore, clarifying the complexity and stability of fungal communities in afforestation areas in changing desert environments is helpful for understanding the interactions between the environment, plants and fungi.
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- Peishan Zhao
- Yanchi Research Station, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Engineering Research Centre of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Yanchi Research Station, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Engineering Research Centre of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China.
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- Yanchi Research Station, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Engineering Research Centre of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Yanchi Research Station, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Engineering Research Centre of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Yanchi Research Station, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Engineering Research Centre of Forestry Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; Key Laboratory of State Forestry and Grassland Administration on Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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Chen L, Wei Y, Li C, Zhao Y, Wei Y, Xue Y, Feng Q. Afforestation changed the fungal functional community of paddy fields and dry farmlands differently. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 904:166758. [PMID: 37673251 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Afforestation currently makes a great contribution to carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems, while dramatically affects soil ecosystem functions too. Little is known, however, about the changes in soil fungal functional groups and their interactions following afforestation. Here, based on high-throughput sequencing and FUNGuild annotation, we investigated the functional characteristics of soil fungi as well as environmental factors in a watershed where paddy field and dry farmland were changed to eucalyptus plantation. The results showed that afforestation on paddy field resulted in greater changes in diversity, community structure and taxon interactions of fungal functional groups than afforestation on dry farmland. The most complex and distinctive community structure was found in eucalyptus plantation, as well as the greatest taxon interactions, and the lowest alpha-diversity of functional guilds of symbiotrophic fungi because of the dominant ectomycorrhizal fungi. Paddy field exhibited the highest proportion of saprotrophic fungi, but the lowest taxonomic diversity of saprotrophic and pathotrophic fungi. The taxonomic diversity of undefined saprotrophic fungi shaped the differences in community structure and network complexity between eucalyptus plantation and cropland. Limited cooperation within dominant fungi was the main reason for the establishment of a loose co-occurrence network in paddy field. From croplands to artificial forests, reduced soil pH boosted the taxonomic diversity of fungal functional groups. All of these findings suggested that afforestation may lead to an increase in the taxonomic diversity of soil fungal functional groups, which would further intensify the taxon interactions.
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- Lijuan Chen
- Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730020, China
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- Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Resources Use in Beibu Gulf, Ministry of Education, School of Geography and Planning, Nanning Normal University, Nanning 530001, China
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
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Radujković D, Vicca S, van Rooyen M, Wilfahrt P, Brown L, Jentsch A, Reinhart KO, Brown C, De Gruyter J, Jurasinski G, Askarizadeh D, Bartha S, Beck R, Blenkinsopp T, Cahill J, Campetella G, Canullo R, Chelli S, Enrico L, Fraser L, Hao X, Henry HAL, Hohn M, Jouri MH, Koch M, Lawrence Lodge R, Li FY, Lord JM, Milligan P, Minggagud H, Palmer T, Schröder B, Szabó G, Zhang T, Zimmermann Z, Verbruggen E. Consistent predictors of microbial community composition across spatial scales in grasslands reveal low context-dependency. Mol Ecol 2023; 32:6924-6938. [PMID: 37873915 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2022] [Revised: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/25/2023]
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Environmental circumstances shaping soil microbial communities have been studied extensively. However, due to disparate study designs, it has been difficult to resolve whether a globally consistent set of predictors exists, or context-dependency prevails. Here, we used a network of 18 grassland sites (11 of those containing regional plant productivity gradients) to examine (i) if similar abiotic or biotic factors predict both large-scale (across sites) and regional-scale (within sites) patterns in bacterial and fungal community composition, and (ii) if microbial community composition differs consistently at two levels of regional plant productivity (low vs. high). Our results revealed that bacteria were associated with particular soil properties (such as base saturation) and both bacteria and fungi were associated with plant community composition across sites and within the majority of sites. Moreover, a discernible microbial community signal emerged, clearly distinguishing high and low-productivity soils across different grasslands independent of their location in the world. Hence, regional productivity differences may be typified by characteristic soil microbial communities across the grassland biome. These results could encourage future research aiming to predict the general effects of global changes on soil microbial community composition in grasslands and to discriminate fertile from infertile systems using generally applicable microbial indicators.
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- Dajana Radujković
- Department of Biology, Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Universiteitsplein 1, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Universiteitsplein 1, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- Applied Behavioural Ecology & Ecosystem Research Unit, Dept. Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (or USDA-ARS), Fort Keogh Livestock& Range Research Laboratory, Miles City, Montana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Biology, Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Universiteitsplein 1, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Landscape Ecology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Unit of Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Unit of Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Unit of Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management, School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET-UNC) and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research and Development Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Botany, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Soil Physics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- Department of Botany - Te Tari Huaota, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Environmental Sciences Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Department of Biology, Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Universiteitsplein 1, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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Su Y, Wang J, Gao W, Wang R, Yang W, Zhang H, Huang L, Guo L. Dynamic metabolites: A bridge between plants and microbes. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 899:165612. [PMID: 37478935 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Plant metabolites have a great influence on soil microbiomes. Although few studies provided insights into plant-microbe interactions, we still know very little about how plants recruit their microbiome. Here, we discuss the dynamic progress that typical metabolites shape microbes by a variety of factors, such as physiographic factors, cultivar factors, phylogeny factors, and environmental stress. Several kinds of metabolites have been reviewed, including plant primary metabolites (PPMs), phytohormones, and plant secondary metabolites (PSMs). The microbes assembled by plant metabolites in return exert beneficial effects on plants, which have been widely applied in agriculture. What's more, we point out existing problems and future research directions, such as unclear mechanisms, few species, simple parts, and ignorance of absolute abundance. This review may inspire readers to study plant-metabolite-microbe interactions in the future.
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- Yaowu Su
- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China; Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- National Resource Center for Chinese Meteria Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China
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- National Resource Center for Chinese Meteria Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China; State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, Beijing, 100700, China.
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Li P, Tedersoo L, Crowther TW, Dumbrell AJ, Dini-Andreote F, Bahram M, Kuang L, Li T, Wu M, Jiang Y, Luan L, Saleem M, de Vries FT, Li Z, Wang B, Jiang J. Fossil-fuel-dependent scenarios could lead to a significant decline of global plant-beneficial bacteria abundance in soils by 2100. NATURE FOOD 2023; 4:996-1006. [PMID: 37904026 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00869-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023]
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Exploiting the potential benefits of plant-associated microbes represents a sustainable approach to enhancing crop productivity. Plant-beneficial bacteria (PBB) provide multiple benefits to plants. However, the biogeography and community structure remain largely unknown. Here we constructed a PBB database to couple microbial taxonomy with their plant-beneficial traits and analysed the global atlas of potential PBB from 4,245 soil samples. We show that the diversity of PBB peaks in low-latitude regions, following a strong latitudinal diversity gradient. The distribution of potential PBB was primarily governed by environmental filtering, which was mainly determined by local climate. Our projections showed that fossil-fuel-dependent future scenarios would lead to a significant decline of potential PBB by 2100, especially biocontrol agents (-1.03%) and stress resistance bacteria (-0.61%), which may potentially threaten global food production and (agro)ecosystem services.
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- Pengfa Li
- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Mycology and Microbiology Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Department of Plant Science and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Mycology and Microbiology Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL, USA
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China.
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Nanjing, China.
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Hogan JA, Jusino MA, Smith ME, Corrales A, Song X, Hu YH, Yang J, Cao M, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Baraloto C. Root-associated fungal communities are influenced more by soils than by plant-host root traits in a Chinese tropical forest. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 238:1849-1864. [PMID: 36808625 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Forest fungal communities are shaped by the interactions between host tree root systems and the associated soil conditions. We investigated how the soil environment, root morphological traits, and root chemistry influence root-inhabiting fungal communities in three tropical forest sites of varying successional status in Xishuangbanna, China. For 150 trees of 66 species, we measured root morphology and tissue chemistry. Tree species identity was confirmed by sequencing rbcL, and root-associated fungal (RAF) communities were determined using high-throughput ITS2 sequencing. Using distance-based redundancy analysis and hierarchical variation partitioning, we quantified the relative importance of two soil variables (site average total phosphorus and available phosphorus), four root traits (dry matter content, tissue density, specific tip abundance, and forks), and three root tissue elemental concentrations (nitrogen, calcium, and manganese) on RAF community dissimilarity. The root and soil environment collectively explained 23% of RAF compositional variation. Soil phosphorus explained 76% of that variation. Twenty fungal taxa differentiated RAF communities among the three sites. Soil phosphorus most strongly affects RAF assemblages in this tropical forest. Variation in root calcium and manganese concentrations and root morphology among tree hosts, principally an architectural trade-off between dense, highly branched vs less-dense, herringbone-type root systems, are important secondary determinants.
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- J Aaron Hogan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Madison, WI, 53726, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
- Centro de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Biotecnología-UR (CIMBIUR), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, 111221, Colombia
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, 666303, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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Aranguren R, Voyron S, Ungaro F, Cañón J, Lumini E. Metabarcoding Reveals Impact of Different Land Uses on Fungal Diversity in the South-Eastern Region of Antioquia, Colombia. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:1126. [PMID: 36903986 PMCID: PMC10005449 DOI: 10.3390/plants12051126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Changes in soil fungal communities caused by land use have not been sufficiently studied in South American Andosols, which are considered key food production areas. Since fungal communities play an important role in soil functionality, this study analysed 26 soil samples of Andosols collected from locations devoted to conservation, agriculture and mining activities in Antioquia, Colombia, to establish differences between fungal communities as indicators of soil biodiversity loss using Illumina MiSeq metabarcoding on nuclear ribosomal ITS2 region. A non-metric multidimensional scaling allowed to explore driver factors of changes in fungal communities, while the significance of these variations was assessed by PERMANOVA. Furthermore, the effect size of land use over relevant taxa was quantified. Our results suggest a good coverage of fungal diversity with a detection of 353,312 high-quality ITS2 sequences. We found strong correlations of Shannon and Fisher indexes with dissimilarities on fungal communities (r = 0.94). These correlations allow grouping soil samples according to land use. Variations in temperature, air humidity and organic matter content lead to changes in abundances of relevant orders (Wallemiales and Trichosporonales). The study highlights specific sensitivities of fungal biodiversity features in tropical Andosols, which may serve as a basis for robust assessments of soil quality in the region.
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- Raul Aranguren
- GAIA Research Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy
- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), National Research Council (CNR), 10125 Turin, Italy
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- Institute for Bio-Economy (IBE), National Research Council (CNR), 50018 Florence, Italy
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- GAIA Research Group, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín 050010, Colombia
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- Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP), National Research Council (CNR), 10125 Turin, Italy
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Luan L, Shi G, Zhu G, Zheng J, Fan J, Dini-Andreote F, Sun B, Jiang Y. Biogeographical patterns of abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in paddy soils across East Asia. Environ Microbiol 2023; 25:294-305. [PMID: 36353981 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Soil bacterial communities play fundamental roles in ecosystem functioning and often display a skewed distribution of abundant and rare taxa. So far, relatively little is known about the biogeographical patterns and mechanisms structuring the assembly of abundant and rare biospheres of soil bacterial communities. Here, we studied the geographical distribution of different bacterial sub-communities by examining the relative influence of environmental selection and dispersal limitation on taxa distributions in paddy soils across East Asia. Our results indicated that the geographical patterns of four different bacterial sub-communities consistently displayed significant distance-decay relationships (DDRs). In addition, we found niche breadth and dispersal rates to significantly explain differences in community assembly of abundant and rare taxa, directly affecting the strength of DDRs. While conditionally rare and abundant taxa displayed the strongest DDR due to higher environmental filtering and dispersal limitation, moderate taxa sub-communities had the weakest DDR due to greater environmental tolerance and dispersal rate. Random forest models indicated that soil pH (9.13%-49.78%) and average annual air temperature (16.59%-46.49%) were the most important predictors of the variation in the bacterial community. This study advances our understanding of the intrinsic links between fundamental ecological processes and microbial biogeographical patterns in paddy soils.
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- Lu Luan
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Plant Science & Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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Marčiulynienė D, Marčiulynas A, Mishcherikova V, Lynikienė J, Gedminas A, Franic I, Menkis A. Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of Pinus sylvestris. J Fungi (Basel) 2022; 8:jof8101112. [PMID: 36294677 PMCID: PMC9604598 DOI: 10.3390/jof8101112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The plant- and soil-associated microbial communities are critical to plant health and their resilience to stressors, such as drought, pathogens, and pest outbreaks. A better understanding of the structure of microbial communities and how they are affected by different environmental factors is needed to predict and manage ecosystem responses to climate change. In this study, we carried out a country-wide analysis of fungal communities associated with Pinus sylvestris growing under different environmental conditions. Needle, shoot, root, mineral, and organic soil samples were collected at 30 sites. By interconnecting the high-throughput sequencing data, environmental variables, and soil chemical properties, we were able to identify key factors that drive the diversity and composition of fungal communities associated with P. sylvestris. The fungal species richness and community composition were also found to be highly dependent on the site and the substrate they colonize. The results demonstrated that different functional tissues and the rhizosphere soil of P. sylvestris are associated with diverse fungal communities, which are driven by a combination of climatic (temperature and precipitation) and edaphic factors (soil pH), and stand characteristics.
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- Diana Marčiulynienė
- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania; (A.M.); (V.M.); (J.L.); (A.G.)
- Correspondence:
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania; (A.M.); (V.M.); (J.L.); (A.G.)
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania; (A.M.); (V.M.); (J.L.); (A.G.)
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania; (A.M.); (V.M.); (J.L.); (A.G.)
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- Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, Lithuania; (A.M.); (V.M.); (J.L.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 190, SE-23422 Lomma, Sweden;
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7026, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden;
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Zuo YL, Hu QN, Qin L, Liu JQ, He XL. Species identity and combinations differ in their overall benefits to Astragalus adsurgens plants inoculated with single or multiple endophytic fungi under drought conditions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:933738. [PMID: 36160950 PMCID: PMC9490189 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.933738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Although desert plants often establish multiple simultaneous symbiotic associations with various endophytic fungi in their roots, most studies focus on single fungus inoculation. Therefore, combined inoculation of multiple fungi should be applied to simulate natural habitats with the presence of a local microbiome. Here, a pot experiment was conducted to test the synergistic effects between three extremely arid habitat-adapted root endophytes (Alternaria chlamydospora, Sarocladium kiliense, and Monosporascus sp.). For that, we compared the effects of single fungus vs. combined fungi inoculation, on plant morphology and rhizospheric soil microhabitat of desert plant Astragalus adsurgens grown under drought and non-sterile soil conditions. The results indicated that fungal inoculation mainly influenced root biomass of A. adsurgens, but did not affect the shoot biomass. Both single fungus and combined inoculation decreased plant height (7-17%), but increased stem branching numbers (13-34%). However, fungal inoculation influenced the root length and surface area depending on their species and combinations, with the greatest benefits occurring on S. kiliense inoculation alone and its co-inoculation with Monosporascus sp. (109% and 61%; 54% and 42%). Although A. chlamydospora and co-inoculations with S. kiliense and Monosporascus sp. also appeared to promote root growth, these inoculations resulted in obvious soil acidification. Despite no observed root growth promotion, Monosporascus sp. associated with its combined inoculations maximally facilitated soil organic carbon accumulation. However, noticeably, combined inoculation of the three species had no significant effects on root length, surface area, and biomass, but promoted rhizospheric fungal diversity and abundance most, with Sordariomycetes being the dominant fungal group. This indicates the response of plant growth to fungal inoculation may be different from that of the rhizospheric fungal community. Structural equation modeling also demonstrated that fungal inoculation significantly influenced the interactions among the growth of A. adsurgens, soil factors, and rhizospheric fungal groups. Our findings suggest that, based on species-specific and combinatorial effects, endophytic fungi enhanced the plant root growth, altered soil nutrients, and facilitated rhizospheric fungal community, possibly contributing to desert plant performance and ecological adaptability. These results will provide the basis for evaluating the potential application of fungal inoculants for developing sustainable management for desert ecosystems.
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- Yi-Ling Zuo
- School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
- Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity Research and Application of Hebei Province, Baoding, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
- Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity Research and Application of Hebei Province, Baoding, China
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Liu Y, Li D, Gao H, Li Y, Chen W, Jiao S, Wei G. Regulation of soil micro-foodwebs to root secondary metabolites in cultivated and wild licorice plants. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 828:154302. [PMID: 35276159 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The diversity of soil eukaryotes and micro-foodwebs are only partially understood. Moreover, how they affect secondary metabolites in plant roots under distinct soil environment is not well elucidated. By combining multiple statistical analyses and network constructions, variations in soil eukaryotic diversity, community assembly processes and potential associations of holistic microbiotas were investigated in the bulk and rhizosphere soils of cultivated and wild licorice, and their regulatory patterns for root secondary metabolites were elucidated. The protistan communities displayed lower alpha diversity, more varied beta diversity patterns, and higher stochastic processes, as compared with fungal communities. Soil fungi individually played a more essential role than soil protists in the regulation of root secondary metabolites. Furthermore, rhizosphere soil was associated with more complicated networks than bulk soil; and wild licorice was associated with more complicated networks than cultivated licorice. Specific responsive modules resulting from networks were essential for the regulation of root secondary metabolites and were mostly affected by edaphic properties. Moreover, these modules directly or indirectly regulated the root secondary metabolites to varying degrees in the presence of soil protists. This indicated that the secondary metabolites were affected by associations between protistan, fungal and bacterial groups, and not merely by individual types of microorganisms in agricultural ecosystems. This study provides insight into the responses of root secondary metabolites to different groups of soil eukaryotic diversity and micro-foodwebs. The results have implications for comprehensively understanding the characteristics of the separate and combined roles of microbiotas for environmental management of licorice plantation ecosystem.
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- Yang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology, College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, People's Republic of China.
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Adnan M, Islam W, Gang L, Chen HYH. Advanced research tools for fungal diversity and its impact on forest ecosystem. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:45044-45062. [PMID: 35460003 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20317-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Fungi are dominant ecological participants in the forest ecosystems, which play a major role in recycling organic matter and channeling nutrients across trophic levels. Fungal populations are shaped by plant communities and environmental parameters, and in turn, fungal communities also impact the forest ecosystem through intrinsic participation of different fungal guilds. Mycorrhizal fungi result in conservation and stability of forest ecosystem, while pathogenic fungi can bring change in forest ecosystem, by replacing the dominant plant species with new or exotic plant species. Saprotrophic fungi, being ecological regulators in the forest ecosystem, convert dead tree logs into reusable constituents and complete the ecological cycles of nitrogen and carbon. However, fungal communities have not been studied in-depth with respect to functional, spatiotemporal, or environmental parameters. Previously, fungal diversity and its role in shaping the forest ecosystem were studied by traditional and laborious cultural methods, which were unable to achieve real-time results and draw a conclusive picture of fungal communities. This review highlights the latest advances in biological methods such as next-generation sequencing and meta'omics for observing fungal diversity in the forest ecosystem, the role of different fungal groups in shaping forest ecosystem, forest productivity, and nutrient cycling at global scales.
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- Muhammad Adnan
- College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
- College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Desert Plant Roots Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
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- Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Rd, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada.
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Rinke M, Maraun M, Scheu S. Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8767. [PMID: 35356561 PMCID: PMC8958242 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Salt marshes exist at the interface of the marine and the terrestrial system. Shore height differences and associated variations in inundation frequency result in altered abiotic conditions, plant communities, and resource input into the belowground system. These factors result in three unique zones, the upper salt marsh (USM), the lower salt marsh (LSM), and the pioneer zone (PZ). Marine detritus, such as micro- and macroalgae, is typically flushed into the PZ daily, with storm surges moving both salt marsh detritus and marine detritus into higher salt marsh zones. Microbial assemblages are essential for the decomposition of organic matter and have been shown to sensitively respond to changes in abiotic conditions such as oxygen supply and salinity. However, temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial communities of Wadden Sea salt marshes received little attention. We investigated the dynamics of soil microbial communities across horizontal (USM, LSM, and PZ), vertical (0-5 and 5-10-cm sediment depth), and temporal (spring, summer, and autumn) scales in the Wadden Sea salt marsh of the European North Atlantic coast using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis. Our results show strong spatial dynamics both among salt marsh zones and between sediment depths, but temporal dynamics to be only minor. Despite varying in space and time, PLFA markers indicated that bacteria generally were the dominant microbial group across salt marsh zones and seasons, however, their dominance was most pronounced in the USM, whereas fungal biomass peaked in the LSM and algal biomass in the PZ. Only algal markers and the stress marker monounsaturated to saturated fatty acid ratio responded to seasonality. Overall, therefore, the results indicate remarkable temporal stability of salt marsh microbial communities despite strong variability in abiotic factors.
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- Maria Rinke
- J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Animal EcologyUniversity of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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- J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Animal EcologyUniversity of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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- J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Animal EcologyUniversity of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
- Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land UseUniversity of GöttingenGöttingenGermany
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Pettersen VK, Dufour A, Arrieta MC. Metaproteomic profiling of fungal gut colonization in gnotobiotic mice. Anim Microbiome 2022; 4:14. [PMID: 35193703 PMCID: PMC8862486 DOI: 10.1186/s42523-022-00163-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Eukaryotic microbes can modulate mammalian host health and disease states, yet the molecular contribution of gut fungi remains nascent. We previously showed that mice exclusively colonised with fungi displayed increased sensitivity to allergic airway inflammation and had fecal metabolite profiles similar to germ-free mice. This marginal effect on the host metabolome suggested that fungi do not primarily use metabolites to modulate the host immune system. Methods To describe functional changes attributed to fungal colonisation, we performed mass spectrometry-based analyses of feces (Label-Free Quantitative; LFQ) and the small intestine (labeling with Tandem Mass Tag; TMT) of gnotobiotic mice colonised with defined consortia of twelve bacterial species, five fungal species, or both. We also evaluated the effect of microbiome perturbances on the metaproteome by analysing feces from mouse pups treated with an antibiotic or antifungal. Results We detected 6675 proteins in the mice feces, of which 3845 had determined LFQ levels. Analysis of variance showed changes in the different gnotobiotic mouse groups; specifically, 46% of 2860 bacterial, 15% of 580 fungal, and 76% of 405 mouse quantified proteins displayed differential levels. The antimicrobial treatments resulted in lasting changes in the bacterial and fungal proteomes, suggesting that the antimicrobials impacted the entire community. Fungal colonisation resulted in changes in host proteins functional in innate immunity as well as metabolism, predicting specific roles of gut fungi on host systems during early developmental stages. Several of the detected fungal proteins (3% of 1492) have been previously reported as part of extracellular vesicles and having immunomodulating properties. Using an isobaric labelling TMT approach for profiling low abundant proteins of the jejunal tissue, we confirmed that the five fungal species differentially impacted the host intestinal proteome compared to the bacterial consortium. The detected changes in mouse jejunal proteins (4% of 1514) were mainly driven by metabolic proteins. Conclusions We used quantitative proteomic profiling of gnotobiotic conditions to show how colonisation with selected fungal species impacts the host gut proteome. Our results suggest that an increased abundance of certain gut fungal species in early life may affect the developing intracellular attributes of epithelial and immune cells. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s42523-022-00163-2.
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Clark DR, McKew BA, Binley A, Heppell CM, Whitby C, Trimmer M. Hydrological properties predict the composition of microbial communities cycling methane and nitrogen in rivers. ISME COMMUNICATIONS 2022; 2:5. [PMID: 37938696 PMCID: PMC9723640 DOI: 10.1038/s43705-022-00087-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Revised: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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Sediment microbial communities drive the biogeochemical cycles that make rivers globally important sources and sinks of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). The structure of these communities is strongly determined by the local physico-chemical environment. However, we currently lack an understanding of the factors that determine microbial community structures at the catchment scale. Here, we show that the contribution of groundwater to total river flow (quantified as base flow index; BFI) predicts the structure and diversity of the different microbial functional groups that cycle N and C across nine UK rivers, spanning a geological BFI gradient from 0.23 (clay sediment) to 0.95 (chalk gravel sediment). Furthermore, the GC-content (percentage of guanine-cytosine bases in a DNA sequence) and codon-usage bias of ammonia monooxygenase DNA sequences, and the hydrophobicity and net-charge of the corresponding amino acid sequences, were all strongly correlated with BFI, likely reflecting physiological adaptations to different riverbed sediment structure along the BFI gradient. Our results offer an opportunity to overcome the "paradox of scales" that has seen microbial ecologists focus on small- rather than large-scale environmental variables, enabling us to scale-up our understanding of microbial biogeochemistry to the catchment and beyond.
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- Dave R Clark
- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK.
- Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK.
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK
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- School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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El-Sahhar S, Varga-Weisz P. The gut microbiome in health and disease: Inflammatory bowel diseases. ADV ECOL RES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2022.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fungi in Permafrost-Affected Soils of the Canadian Arctic: Horizon- and Site-Specific Keystone Taxa Revealed by Co-Occurrence Network. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9091943. [PMID: 34576837 PMCID: PMC8466989 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9091943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Permafrost-affected soil stores a significant amount of organic carbon. Identifying the biological constraints of soil organic matter transformation, e.g., the interaction of major soil microbial soil organic matter decomposers, is crucial for predicting carbon vulnerability in permafrost-affected soil. Fungi are important players in the decomposition of soil organic matter and often interact in various mutualistic relationships during this process. We investigated four different soil horizon types (including specific horizons of cryoturbated soil organic matter (cryoOM)) across different types of permafrost-affected soil in the Western Canadian Arctic, determined the composition of fungal communities by sequencing (Illumina MPS) the fungal internal transcribed spacer region, assigned fungal lifestyles, and by determining the co-occurrence of fungal network properties, identified the topological role of keystone fungal taxa. Compositional analysis revealed a significantly higher relative proportion of the litter saprotroph Lachnum and root-associated saprotroph Phialocephala in the topsoil and the ectomycorrhizal close-contact exploring Russula in cryoOM, whereas Sites 1 and 2 had a significantly higher mean proportion of plant pathogens and lichenized trophic modes. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed the lowest modularity and average path length, and highest clustering coefficient in cryoOM, which suggested a lower network resistance to environmental perturbation. Zi-Pi plot analysis suggested that some keystone taxa changed their role from generalist to specialist, depending on the specific horizon concerned, Cladophialophora in topsoil, saprotrophic Mortierella in cryoOM, and Penicillium in subsoil were classified as generalists for the respective horizons but specialists elsewhere. The litter saprotrophic taxon Cadophora finlandica played a role as a generalist in Site 1 and specialist in the rest of the sites. Overall, these results suggested that fungal communities within cryoOM were more susceptible to environmental change and some taxa may shift their role, which may lead to changes in carbon storage in permafrost-affected soil.
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Davison J, Moora M, Semchenko M, Adenan SB, Ahmed T, Akhmetzhanova AA, Alatalo JM, Al-Quraishy S, Andriyanova E, Anslan S, Bahram M, Batbaatar A, Brown C, Bueno CG, Cahill J, Cantero JJ, Casper BB, Cherosov M, Chideh S, Coelho AP, Coghill M, Decocq G, Dudov S, Fabiano EC, Fedosov VE, Fraser L, Glassman SI, Helm A, Henry HAL, Hérault B, Hiiesalu I, Hiiesalu I, Hozzein WN, Kohout P, Kõljalg U, Koorem K, Laanisto L, Mander Ü, Mucina L, Munyampundu JP, Neuenkamp L, Niinemets Ü, Nyamukondiwa C, Oja J, Onipchenko V, Pärtel M, Phosri C, Põlme S, Püssa K, Ronk A, Saitta A, Semboli O, Sepp SK, Seregin A, Sudheer S, Peña-Venegas CP, Paz C, Vahter T, Vasar M, Veraart AJ, Tedersoo L, Zobel M, Öpik M. Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 231:763-776. [PMID: 33507570 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are a globally distributed group of soil organisms that play critical roles in ecosystem function. However, the ecological niches of individual AM fungal taxa are poorly understood. We collected > 300 soil samples from natural ecosystems worldwide and modelled the realised niches of AM fungal virtual taxa (VT; approximately species-level phylogroups). We found that environmental and spatial variables jointly explained VT distribution worldwide, with temperature and pH being the most important abiotic drivers, and spatial effects generally occurring at local to regional scales. While dispersal limitation could explain some variation in VT distribution, VT relative abundance was almost exclusively driven by environmental variables. Several environmental and spatial effects on VT distribution and relative abundance were correlated with phylogeny, indicating that closely related VT exhibit similar niche optima and widths. Major clades within the Glomeraceae exhibited distinct niche optima, Acaulosporaceae generally had niche optima in low pH and low temperature conditions, and Gigasporaceae generally had niche optima in high precipitation conditions. Identification of the realised niche space occupied by individual and phylogenetic groups of soil microbial taxa provides a basis for building detailed hypotheses about how soil communities respond to gradients and manipulation in ecosystems worldwide.
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- John Davison
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester,, M13 9PL, UK
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, 2713, Qatar
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Environmental Science Centre, Qatar University, Doha, 2713, Qatar
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the North Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Magadan, 685000, Russia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 756 51, Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET, Córdoba, X5000HUA, Argentina
- Departamento de Biología Agrícola, Facultad de Agronomía y Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Córdoba, X5804BYA, Argentina
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4544, USA
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- Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia
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- Département de Recherche en Sciences de l'Environnement, Université de Djibouti, Private bag 1904, Djibouti, Djibouti
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- Department of Biology and CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada
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- Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés, Jules Verne University of Picardie, Amiens, F-80037, France
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Department of Wildlife Management and Ecotourism, University of Namibia, Private bag 1096, Katima Mulilo, Namibia
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
- Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, 690024, Russia
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, V2C 0C8, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada
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- CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
- Forêts et Sociétés, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, 34000, France
- Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
- Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Bani Suwayf, 62511, Egypt
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- Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, 14220, Czechia
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, 12843, Czechia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Iluka Chair in Vegetation Science and Biogeography, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth, WA, 6150, Australia
- Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, 7602, South Africa
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- School of Science, College of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, Kigali, 3900, Rwanda
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, 3013, Switzerland
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- Chair of Crop Science and Plant Biology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 51006, Estonia
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Private bag 16, Palapye, Botswana
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, Nakhon Phanom University, Nakhon Phanom, 48000, Thailand
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
- Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-4544, USA
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, 90128, Italy
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- Center of Studies and Research on Pharmacopoeia and Traditional African Medicine, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Ecology and Plant Geography, Faculty of Biology, Moscow Lomonsov State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Científicas Sinchi, Leticia, Amazonas, 910001, Colombia
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- Departamento de Biodiversidade, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, 13506-900, Brazil
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6525AJ, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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Thomas GE, Brant JL, Campo P, Clark DR, Coulon F, Gregson BH, McGenity TJ, McKew BA. Effects of Dispersants and Biosurfactants on Crude-Oil Biodegradation and Bacterial Community Succession. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9061200. [PMID: 34206054 PMCID: PMC8229435 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9061200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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This study evaluated the effects of three commercial dispersants (Finasol OSR 52, Slickgone NS, Superdispersant 25) and three biosurfactants (rhamnolipid, trehalolipid, sophorolipid) in crude-oil seawater microcosms. We analysed the crucial early bacterial response (1 and 3 days). In contrast, most analyses miss this key period and instead focus on later time points after oil and dispersant addition. By focusing on the early stage, we show that dispersants and biosurfactants, which reduce the interfacial surface tension of oil and water, significantly increase the abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, and the rate of hydrocarbon biodegradation, within 24 h. A succession of obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (OHCB), driven by metabolite niche partitioning, is demonstrated. Importantly, this succession has revealed how the OHCB Oleispira, hitherto considered to be a psychrophile, can dominate in the early stages of oil-spill response (1 and 3 days), outcompeting all other OHCB, at the relatively high temperature of 16 °C. Additionally, we demonstrate how some dispersants or biosurfactants can select for specific bacterial genera, especially the biosurfactant rhamnolipid, which appears to provide an advantageous compatibility with Pseudomonas, a genus in which some species synthesize rhamnolipid in the presence of hydrocarbons.
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- Gareth E. Thomas
- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.R.C.); (B.H.G.); (T.J.M.); (B.A.M.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +44-1206-873333 (ext. 2918)
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK;
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK; (P.C.); (F.C.)
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.R.C.); (B.H.G.); (T.J.M.); (B.A.M.)
- Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield MK43 0AL, UK; (P.C.); (F.C.)
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.R.C.); (B.H.G.); (T.J.M.); (B.A.M.)
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.R.C.); (B.H.G.); (T.J.M.); (B.A.M.)
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK; (D.R.C.); (B.H.G.); (T.J.M.); (B.A.M.)
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Mujica MI, Pérez MF, Jakalski M, Martos F, Selosse MA. Soil P reduces mycorrhizal colonization while favors fungal pathogens: observational and experimental evidence in Bipinnula (Orchidaceae). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2021; 96:5897353. [PMID: 32845297 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Little is known about the soil factors influencing root-associated fungal communities in Orchidaceae. Limited evidence suggests that soil nutrients may modulate the association with orchid mycorrhizal fungi (OMF), but their influence on non-mycorrhizal fungi remains unexplored. To study how nutrient availability affects mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal fungi associated with the orchid Bipinnula fimbriata, we conducted a metagenomic investigation within a large population with variable soil conditions. Additionally, we tested the effect of phosphorus (P) addition on fungal communities and mycorrhizal colonization. Soil P negatively correlated with the abundance of OMF, but not with the abundance of non-mycorrhizal fungi. After fertilization, increments in soil P negatively affected mycorrhizal colonization; however, they had no effect on OMF richness or composition. The abundance and richness of pathotrophs were negatively related to mycorrhizal colonization and then, after fertilization, the decrease in mycorrhizal colonization correlated with an increase in pathogen richness. Our results suggest that OMF are affected by soil conditions differently from non-mycorrhizal fungi. Bipinnula fimbriata responds to fertilization by altering mycorrhizal colonization rather than by switching OMF partners in the short term, and the influence of nutrients on OMF is coupled with indirect effects on the whole fungal community and potentially on plant's health.
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- María Isabel Mujica
- Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología and Biodiversidad (IEB), Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile.,Instituto de Ecología and Biodiversidad (IEB), Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdansk, Poland.,Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (UMR 7205-MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles), 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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Zhang G, Bai J, Tebbe CC, Huang L, Jia J, Wang W, Wang X, Yu L, Zhao Q. Spartina alterniflora invasions reduce soil fungal diversity and simplify co-occurrence networks in a salt marsh ecosystem. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 758:143667. [PMID: 33248759 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/08/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Soil fungal communities drive diverse ecological processes and are critical in maintaining ecosystems' stability, but the effects of plant invasion on soil fungal diversity, community composition, and functional groups are not well understood. Here, we investigated soil fungal communities in a salt marsh ecosystem with both native (Suaeda salsa) and exotic (Spartina alterniflora) species in the Yellow River Delta. We characterized fungal diversity based on the PCR-amplified Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) DNA sequences from soil extracted total DNA. The plant invasion evidently decreased fungal richness and phylogenetic diversity and significantly altered the taxonomic community composition (indicated by the permutation test, P < 0.001). Co-occurrence networks between fungal species showed fewer network links but were more assembled because of the high modularity after the invasion. As indicated by the fungal Bray-Curtis and weighted UniFrac distances, the fungal community became homogenized with the invasion. FUNGuild database analyses revealed that the invaded sites had a higher proportion of saprophytic fungi, suggesting higher organic matter decomposition potential with the invasion. The plant invasion dramatically inhibited the growth of pathogenic fungi, which may facilitate the expansion of invasive plants in the intertidal habitats. Soil pH and salinity were identified as the most important edaphic factors in shaping the fungal community structures in the context of Spartina alterniflora invasion. Overall, this study elucidates the linkage between plant invasion and soil fungal communities and poses potential consequences for fungal contribution to ecosystem function, including the decomposition of soil organic substrates.
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- Guangliang Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China.
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- Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Bundesallee 65, Braunschweig 38116, Germany
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- Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California-Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China
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- Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Ji'nan 250103, PR China; Ecology Institute of Shandong Academy of Sciences, Ji'nan 250103, PR China
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Leadbeater DR, Oates NC, Bennett JP, Li Y, Dowle AA, Taylor JD, Alponti JS, Setchfield AT, Alessi AM, Helgason T, McQueen-Mason SJ, Bruce NC. Mechanistic strategies of microbial communities regulating lignocellulose deconstruction in a UK salt marsh. MICROBIOME 2021; 9:48. [PMID: 33597033 PMCID: PMC7890819 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00964-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Salt marshes are major natural repositories of sequestered organic carbon with high burial rates of organic matter, produced by highly productive native flora. Accumulated carbon predominantly exists as lignocellulose which is metabolised by communities of functionally diverse microbes. However, the organisms that orchestrate this process and the enzymatic mechanisms employed that regulate the accumulation, composition and permanence of this carbon stock are not yet known. We applied meta-exo-proteome proteomics and 16S rRNA gene profiling to study lignocellulose decomposition in situ within the surface level sediments of a natural established UK salt marsh. RESULTS Our studies revealed a community dominated by Gammaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Deltaproteobacteria that drive lignocellulose degradation in the salt marsh. We identify 42 families of lignocellulolytic bacteria of which the most active secretors of carbohydrate-active enzymes were observed to be Prolixibacteracea, Flavobacteriaceae, Cellvibrionaceae, Saccharospirillaceae, Alteromonadaceae, Vibrionaceae and Cytophagaceae. These families secreted lignocellulose-active glycoside hydrolase (GH) family enzymes GH3, GH5, GH6, GH9, GH10, GH11, GH13 and GH43 that were associated with degrading Spartina biomass. While fungi were present, we did not detect a lignocellulolytic contribution from fungi which are major contributors to terrestrial lignocellulose deconstruction. Oxidative enzymes such as laccases, peroxidases and lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases that are important for lignocellulose degradation in the terrestrial environment were present but not abundant, while a notable abundance of putative esterases (such as carbohydrate esterase family 1) associated with decoupling lignin from polysaccharides in lignocellulose was observed. CONCLUSIONS Here, we identify a diverse cohort of previously undefined bacteria that drive lignocellulose degradation in the surface sediments of the salt marsh environment and describe the enzymatic mechanisms they employ to facilitate this process. Our results increase the understanding of the microbial and molecular mechanisms that underpin carbon sequestration from lignocellulose within salt marsh surface sediments in situ and provide insights into the potential enzymatic mechanisms regulating the enrichment of polyphenolics in salt marsh sediments. Video Abstract.
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- Daniel R Leadbeater
- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Bioscience Technology Facility, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Biosciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, Department of Biology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
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Zhou X, Leite MFA, Zhang Z, Tian L, Chang J, Ma L, Li X, van Veen JA, Tian C, Kuramae EE. Facilitation in the soil microbiome does not necessarily lead to niche expansion. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME 2021; 16:4. [PMID: 33902741 PMCID: PMC8067652 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-021-00373-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND The soil microbiome drives soil ecosystem function, and soil microbial functionality is directly linked to interactions between microbes and the soil environment. However, the context-dependent interactions in the soil microbiome remain largely unknown. RESULTS Using latent variable models (LVMs), we disentangle the biotic and abiotic interactions of soil bacteria, fungi and environmental factors using the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau soil ecosystem as a model. Our results show that soil bacteria and fungi not only interact with each other but also shift from competition to facilitation or vice versa depending on environmental variation; that is, the nature of their interactions is context-dependent. CONCLUSIONS Overall, elevation is the environmental gradient that most promotes facilitative interactions among microbes but is not a major driver of soil microbial community composition, as evidenced by variance partitioning. The larger the tolerance of a microbe to a specific environmental gradient, the lesser likely it is to interact with other soil microbes, which suggests that facilitation does not necessarily lead to niche expansion.
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- Xue Zhou
- College of Resources and Environment, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China
- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China.
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- Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
- Ecology and biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Marine Fungal Communities: Metabolic Engineering for Secondary Metabolites and Their Industrial Applications. Fungal Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68260-6_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Xu FJ, Song SL, Ma CY, Zhang W, Sun K, Tang MJ, Xie XG, Fan KK, Dai CC. Endophytic fungus improves peanut drought resistance by reassembling the root-dwelling community of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. FUNGAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Lumibao CY, Kimbrough ER, Day RH, Conner WH, Krauss KW, Van Bael SA. Divergent biotic and abiotic filtering of root endosphere and rhizosphere soil fungal communities along ecological gradients. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5860278. [PMID: 32562419 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Plant roots assemble in two distinct microbial compartments: the rhizosphere (microbes in soil surrounding roots) and the endosphere (microbes within roots). Our knowledge of fungal community assembly in these compartments is limited, especially in wetlands. We tested the hypothesis that biotic factors would have direct effects on rhizosphere and endosphere assembly, while abiotic factors would have direct and indirect effects. Using a field study, we examined the influences of salinity, water level and biotic factors on baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) fungal communities. We found that endosphere fungi, unlike rhizosphere fungi, were correlated with host density and canopy cover, suggesting that hosts can impose selective filters on fungi colonizing their roots. Meanwhile, local abiotic conditions strongly influenced both rhizosphere and endosphere diversity in opposite patterns, e.g. highest endosphere diversity (hump-shaped) and lowest rhizosphere diversity (U-shaped) at intermediate salinity levels. These results indicate that the assembly and structure of the root endosphere and rhizosphere within a host can be shaped by different processes. Our results also highlight the importance of assessing how environmental changes affect plant and plant-associated fungal communities in wetland ecosystems where saltwater intrusion and sea level rise are major threats to both plant and fungal communities.
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- Candice Y Lumibao
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA, 70506, USA
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- Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University, P.O. Box 596, Georgetown, SC, 29442, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, 700 Cajundome Blvd., Lafayette, LA, 70506, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA
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Redondo MA, Berlin A, Boberg J, Oliva J. Vegetation type determines spore deposition within a forest-agricultural mosaic landscape. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5827636. [PMID: 32356889 PMCID: PMC7239601 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Predicting fungal community assembly is partly limited by our understanding of the factors driving the composition of deposited spores. We studied the relative contribution of vegetation, geographical distance, seasonality and weather to fungal spore deposition across three vegetation types. Active and passive spore traps were established in agricultural fields, deciduous forests and coniferous forests across a geographic gradient of ∼600 km. Active traps captured the spore community suspended in air, reflecting the potential deposition, whereas passive traps reflected realized deposition. Fungal species were identified by metabarcoding of the ITS2 region. The composition of spore communities captured by passive traps differed more between vegetation types than across regions separated by >100 km, indicating that vegetation type was the strongest driver of composition of deposited spores. By contrast, vegetation contributed less to potential deposition, which followed a seasonal pattern. Within the same site, the spore communities captured by active traps differed from those captured by passive traps. Realized deposition tended to be dominated by spores of species related to vegetation. Temperature was negatively correlated with the fungal species richness of both potential and realized deposition. Our results indicate that vegetation may be able to maintain similar fungal communities across distances, and likely be the driving factor of fungal spore deposition at landscape level.
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- Miguel A Redondo
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7026, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain.,Joint Research Unit AGROTECNIO-CTFC, Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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Temperature-Induced Annual Variation in Microbial Community Changes and Resulting Metabolome Shifts in a Controlled Fermentation System. mSystems 2020; 5:5/4/e00555-20. [PMID: 32694129 PMCID: PMC7566281 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00555-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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We used Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system to show that microbiome composition changes more dramatically across seasons than throughout the fermentation process within seasons. These changes translate to differences in the metabolome as the ultimate functional outcome of microbial activity, suggesting that temporal changes in microbiome composition are translating into functional changes. This result is striking as it suggests that microbial functioning, despite controlled conditions in the fermentors, fluctuates over season along with external temperature differences, which threatens a reproducible food taste. As such, we believe that our study provides a stepping-stone into novel taxonomy-functional studies that promote future work in other systems and that also is relevant in applied settings to better control surrounding conditions in food production. We are rapidly increasing our understanding on the spatial distribution of microbial communities. However, microbial functioning, as well as temporal differences and mechanisms causing microbial community shifts, remains comparably little explored. Here, using Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system containing a low microbial diversity, we studied temporal changes in microbial community structure and functioning. For that, we used high-throughput sequencing to analyze the composition of bacteria and fungi and analyzed the microbially derived metabolome throughout the fermentation process in all four seasons in both 2018 and 2019. We show that microbial communities and the metabolome changed throughout the fermentation process in each of the four seasons, with metabolome diversity increasing throughout the fermentation process. Across seasons, bacterial and fungal communities as well as the metabolome driven by 10 indicator microorganisms and six metabolites varied even more. Daily average temperature in the external surroundings was the primary determinant of the observed temporal microbial community and metabolome changes. Collectively, our work reveals critical insights into patterns and processes determining temporal changes of microbial community composition and functioning. We highlight the importance of linking taxonomic to functional changes in microbial ecology to enable predictions of human-relevant applications. IMPORTANCE We used Chinese liquor fermentation as a model system to show that microbiome composition changes more dramatically across seasons than throughout the fermentation process within seasons. These changes translate to differences in the metabolome as the ultimate functional outcome of microbial activity, suggesting that temporal changes in microbiome composition are translating into functional changes. This result is striking as it suggests that microbial functioning, despite controlled conditions in the fermentors, fluctuates over season along with external temperature differences, which threatens a reproducible food taste. As such, we believe that our study provides a stepping-stone into novel taxonomy-functional studies that promote future work in other systems and that also is relevant in applied settings to better control surrounding conditions in food production.
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Thomas GE, Cameron TC, Campo P, Clark DR, Coulon F, Gregson BH, Hepburn LJ, McGenity TJ, Miliou A, Whitby C, McKew BA. Bacterial Community Legacy Effects Following the Agia Zoni II Oil-Spill, Greece. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1706. [PMID: 32765479 PMCID: PMC7379155 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In September 2017 the Agia Zoni II sank in the Saronic Gulf, Greece, releasing approximately 500 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, contaminating the Salamina and Athens coastlines. Effects of the spill, and remediation efforts, on sediment microbial communities were quantified over the following 7 months. Five days post-spill, the concentration of measured hydrocarbons within surface sediments of contaminated beaches was 1,093-3,773 μg g-1 dry sediment (91% alkanes and 9% polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), but measured hydrocarbons decreased rapidly after extensive clean-up operations. Bacterial genera known to contain oil-degrading species increased in abundance, including Alcanivorax, Cycloclasticus, Oleibacter, Oleiphilus, and Thalassolituus, and the species Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus from approximately 0.02 to >32% (collectively) of the total bacterial community. Abundance of genera with known hydrocarbon-degraders then decreased 1 month after clean-up. However, a legacy effect was observed within the bacterial community, whereby Alcanivorax and Cycloclasticus persisted for several months after the oil spill in formerly contaminated sites. This study is the first to evaluate the effect of the Agia Zoni II oil-spill on microbial communities in an oligotrophic sea, where in situ oil-spill studies are rare. The results aid the advancement of post-spill monitoring models, which can predict the capability of environments to naturally attenuate oil.
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- Gareth E. Thomas
- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
- Institute for Analytics and Data Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex, United Kingdom
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
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Chen J, Akutse KS, Saqib HSA, Wu X, Yang F, Xia X, Wang L, Goettel MS, You M, Gurr GM. Fungal Endophyte Communities of Crucifer Crops Are Seasonally Dynamic and Structured by Plant Identity, Plant Tissue and Environmental Factors. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1519. [PMID: 32760366 PMCID: PMC7373767 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Endophytic fungi are important in diverse plant functions but knowledge of the factors that shape assemblages of these symbionts is lacking. Here, using a culture-dependent approach, we report 4,178 endophytic fungal isolates representing 16 orders isolated from stems, roots and leaves of three cruciferous plant species, Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L.), radish (Raphanus sativus L.) and white cabbage (B. olerocea L.), collected from 21 focal fields with different landscape contexts and pesticide uses during four seasons (summer, autumn, winter and spring). The colonization rate of fungi was found to be most strongly affected by season, plant identity and plant tissue. The colonization was highest during autumn, followed by summer, spring and lowest during winter. The colonization was highest in B. olerocea (53.2%), followed by B. rapa (42.6%), and lowest in R. sativus (35.0%). The colonization was highest in stems (51.9%) in all plant types, followed by leaves (42.4%) and roots (37.5%). Hypocreales was the dominant order (33.3% of all the isolates), followed by Glomerellales (26.5%), Eurotiales (12.1%), Pleosporales (9.8%) and Capnodiales (6.0%). Fungal endophyte abundance (number of isolates) followed the same pattern as colonization rate, while species richness varied with season and host plant tissue. Ordination analyses showed that the abundance and richness of Hypocreales, Eurotiales and Sordariales were associated with plant roots, while Capnodiales, Pleosporales and Trichosphaeriales were associated with spring. Other environmental factors, elevation, and the proportions of grassland, forest, orchard and waterbodies in the surrounding landscape also exerted effects within some categories of other main effects or for certain fungal taxa. Our results indicate that while fungal endophyte communities of crucifer crops vary strongly with the season, they are also strongly structured by plant identity and plant tissue, to a lesser extent by pesticide use and only weakly by landscape composition. The understanding of the ecological roles of fungal endophytes could contribute to habitat management and consequently improve crop pest management.
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- Junhui Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control, Ministry of Education, Fuzhou, China
- Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia
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Větrovský T, Morais D, Kohout P, Lepinay C, Algora C, Awokunle Hollá S, Bahnmann BD, Bílohnědá K, Brabcová V, D'Alò F, Human ZR, Jomura M, Kolařík M, Kvasničková J, Lladó S, López-Mondéjar R, Martinović T, Mašínová T, Meszárošová L, Michalčíková L, Michalová T, Mundra S, Navrátilová D, Odriozola I, Piché-Choquette S, Štursová M, Švec K, Tláskal V, Urbanová M, Vlk L, Voříšková J, Žifčáková L, Baldrian P. GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies. Sci Data 2020; 7:228. [PMID: 32661237 PMCID: PMC7359306 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0567-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com . The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across > 17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional metadata contained in 178 original studies with millions of unique nucleotide sequences (sequence variants) of the fungal internal transcribed spacers (ITS) 1 and 2 representing fungal species and genera. The study represents the most comprehensive atlas of global fungal distribution, and it is framed in such a way that third-party data addition is possible.
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- Tomáš Větrovský
- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Tuscia, Largo dell'Università snc, Viterbo, 01100, Italy
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Science and Resources, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Section for Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oslo, Blindernveien 31, 0316, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vídeňská 1083, 14220, Praha 4, Czech Republic.
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Lacerda ALDF, Proietti MC, Secchi ER, Taylor JD. Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula. Mol Ecol 2020; 29:1903-1918. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.15444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Ana L. d. F. Lacerda
- Instituto de Oceanografia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande-FURG Rio Grande Brazil
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- Instituto de Oceanografia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande-FURG Rio Grande Brazil
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- Instituto de Oceanografia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande-FURG Rio Grande Brazil
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- School of Science, Engineering and Environment University of Salford Manchester UK
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Li P, Liu M, Ma X, Wu M, Jiang C, Liu K, Liu J, Li Z. Responses of microbial communities to a gradient of pig manure amendment in red paddy soils. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 705:135884. [PMID: 31818573 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 11/28/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Microbial communities play a key role in maintaining agroecosystem functioning and sustainability, but their response to excessive animal manure application and relevant mechanisms have not been thoroughly elucidated to date. This study investigated the responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to pig manure (PM) amendment in red paddy soils. High-throughput sequencing revealed that PM amendment significantly reduced the relative abundance of Acidobacteria yet increased that of Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, Firmicutes, and Rozellomycota. The Cu and available phosphorus were the primary impact factors influencing bacterial and fungal diversity, respectively. Bacterial alpha-diversity tended to sharply decrease when the content of soil Cu was >30.70 mg kg-1, while fungal alpha-diversity did not continuously increase when the content of soil available phosphorus was >82.84 mg kg-1. Bacterial communities with a wider niche breadth showed significantly lower structural variation, whereas fungal communities with a narrower niche breadth showed greater variation in community structure. Soil heavy metals, primarily Cu and Zn, were the primary factors that affected bacterial communities, whereas soil fungal communities were mainly influenced by soil phosphorus. Bacterial and fungal communities showed distinct co-occurrence patterns, with bacterial communities showing a higher degree, a clustering coefficient, and betweenness centrality, but a lower closeness centrality. The findings highlighted that bacteria and fungi responded differently to PM amendment because of their discrepant niche breadth, interspecific relationships, and different tolerance to heavy metal and soil nutrient.
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- Pengfa Li
- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Soil and Fertilizer & Resources and Environment Institute, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang 330200, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Beng KC, Corlett RT. Identifying the mechanisms that shape fungal community and metacommunity patterns in Yunnan, China. FUNGAL ECOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2019.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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