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Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing

Wood‐inhabiting fungi (WIF) are pivotal to wood decomposition, which in turn strongly influences nutrient dynamics in forest soils. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that the majority of WIF are soil‐borne. For this reason, the presented research aimed to quantify t...

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Autores principales: Purahong, Witoon, Pietsch, Katherina A., Bruelheide, Helge, Wirth, Christian, Buscot, François, Wubet, Tesfaye
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6741142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31134764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.856
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author Purahong, Witoon
Pietsch, Katherina A.
Bruelheide, Helge
Wirth, Christian
Buscot, François
Wubet, Tesfaye
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Pietsch, Katherina A.
Bruelheide, Helge
Wirth, Christian
Buscot, François
Wubet, Tesfaye
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description Wood‐inhabiting fungi (WIF) are pivotal to wood decomposition, which in turn strongly influences nutrient dynamics in forest soils. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that the majority of WIF are soil‐borne. For this reason, the presented research aimed to quantify the contribution of soil as a source and medium for the dispersal of WIF to deadwood using high‐throughput sequencing. We tested effects of tree species (specifically Schima superba and Pinus massoniana) on the percentage of WIF shared between soil and deadwood in a Chinese subtropical forest ecosystem. We also assessed the taxonomic and ecological functional group affiliations of the fungal community shared between soil and deadwood. Our results indicate that soil is a major route for WIF colonization as 12%–15% (depending on the tree species) of soil fungi were simultaneously detected in deadwood. We also demonstrate that tree species (p < 0.01) significantly shapes the composition of the shared soil and deadwood fungal community. The pH of decomposing wood was shown to significantly correspond (p < 0.01) with the shared community of wood‐inhabiting (of both studied tree species) and soil fungi. Furthermore, our data suggest that a wide range of fungal taxonomic (Rozellida, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota) and ecological functional groups (saprotrophs, ectomycorrhizal, mycoparasites, and plant pathogens) may use soil as a source and medium for transport to deadwood in subtropical forest ecosystem. While 12%–62% of saprotrophic, ectomycorrhizal, and mycoparasitic WIF may utilize soil to colonize deadwood, only 5% of the detected plant pathogens were detected in both soil and deadwood, implying that these fungi use other dispersal routes. Animal endosymbionts and lichenized WIF were not detected in the soil samples. Future studies should consider assessing the relative contributions of other possible dispersal mechanisms (e.g. wind, water splash, water dispersal, animal dispersal, and mycelial network) in the colonization of deadwood by soil fungi.
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spelling pubmed-67411422019-09-13 Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing Purahong, Witoon Pietsch, Katherina A. Bruelheide, Helge Wirth, Christian Buscot, François Wubet, Tesfaye Microbiologyopen Original Articles Wood‐inhabiting fungi (WIF) are pivotal to wood decomposition, which in turn strongly influences nutrient dynamics in forest soils. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that the majority of WIF are soil‐borne. For this reason, the presented research aimed to quantify the contribution of soil as a source and medium for the dispersal of WIF to deadwood using high‐throughput sequencing. We tested effects of tree species (specifically Schima superba and Pinus massoniana) on the percentage of WIF shared between soil and deadwood in a Chinese subtropical forest ecosystem. We also assessed the taxonomic and ecological functional group affiliations of the fungal community shared between soil and deadwood. Our results indicate that soil is a major route for WIF colonization as 12%–15% (depending on the tree species) of soil fungi were simultaneously detected in deadwood. We also demonstrate that tree species (p < 0.01) significantly shapes the composition of the shared soil and deadwood fungal community. The pH of decomposing wood was shown to significantly correspond (p < 0.01) with the shared community of wood‐inhabiting (of both studied tree species) and soil fungi. Furthermore, our data suggest that a wide range of fungal taxonomic (Rozellida, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota) and ecological functional groups (saprotrophs, ectomycorrhizal, mycoparasites, and plant pathogens) may use soil as a source and medium for transport to deadwood in subtropical forest ecosystem. While 12%–62% of saprotrophic, ectomycorrhizal, and mycoparasitic WIF may utilize soil to colonize deadwood, only 5% of the detected plant pathogens were detected in both soil and deadwood, implying that these fungi use other dispersal routes. Animal endosymbionts and lichenized WIF were not detected in the soil samples. Future studies should consider assessing the relative contributions of other possible dispersal mechanisms (e.g. wind, water splash, water dispersal, animal dispersal, and mycelial network) in the colonization of deadwood by soil fungi. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6741142/ /pubmed/31134764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.856 Text en © 2019 The Authors. MicrobiologyOpen published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
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title_full Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
title_fullStr Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
title_full_unstemmed Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
title_short Potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
title_sort potential links between wood‐inhabiting and soil fungal communities: evidence from high‐throughput sequencing
topic Original Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6741142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31134764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.856
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