Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health

Soil health, and the closely related terms of soil quality and fertility, is considered as one of the most important characteristics of soil ecosystems. The integrated approach to soil health assumes that soil is a living system and soil health results from the interaction between different processe...

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Autores principales: Frąc, Magdalena, Hannula, Silja E., Bełka, Marta, Jędryczka, Małgorzata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755421
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00707
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author Frąc, Magdalena
Hannula, Silja E.
Bełka, Marta
Jędryczka, Małgorzata
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description Soil health, and the closely related terms of soil quality and fertility, is considered as one of the most important characteristics of soil ecosystems. The integrated approach to soil health assumes that soil is a living system and soil health results from the interaction between different processes and properties, with a strong effect on the activity of soil microbiota. All soils can be described using physical, chemical, and biological properties, but adaptation to environmental changes, driven by the processes of natural selection, are unique to the latter one. This mini review focuses on fungal biodiversity and its role in the health of managed soils as well as on the current methods used in soil mycobiome identification and utilization next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches. The authors separately focus on agriculture and horticulture as well as grassland and forest ecosystems. Moreover, this mini review describes the effect of land-use on the biodiversity and succession of fungi. In conclusion, the authors recommend a shift from cataloging fungal species in different soil ecosystems toward a more global analysis based on functions and interactions between organisms.
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spelling pubmed-59323662018-05-11 Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health Frąc, Magdalena Hannula, Silja E. Bełka, Marta Jędryczka, Małgorzata Front Microbiol Microbiology Soil health, and the closely related terms of soil quality and fertility, is considered as one of the most important characteristics of soil ecosystems. The integrated approach to soil health assumes that soil is a living system and soil health results from the interaction between different processes and properties, with a strong effect on the activity of soil microbiota. All soils can be described using physical, chemical, and biological properties, but adaptation to environmental changes, driven by the processes of natural selection, are unique to the latter one. This mini review focuses on fungal biodiversity and its role in the health of managed soils as well as on the current methods used in soil mycobiome identification and utilization next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches. The authors separately focus on agriculture and horticulture as well as grassland and forest ecosystems. Moreover, this mini review describes the effect of land-use on the biodiversity and succession of fungi. In conclusion, the authors recommend a shift from cataloging fungal species in different soil ecosystems toward a more global analysis based on functions and interactions between organisms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5932366/ /pubmed/29755421 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00707 Text en Copyright © 2018 Frąc, Hannula, Bełka and Jędryczka. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Frąc, Magdalena
Hannula, Silja E.
Bełka, Marta
Jędryczka, Małgorzata
Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title_full Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title_fullStr Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title_full_unstemmed Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title_short Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health
title_sort fungal biodiversity and their role in soil health
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29755421
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00707
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