Cultural Characteristics of Korean Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

The ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi

Ectomycorrhizal fungi in mineral soil

Ectomycorrhizal fungi are mutualistic symbionts of many forest trees and play a major role in nutrient uptake. They form diverse communities in boreal forest soils but functional differences within this group of fungi remain largely unknown. We study ectomycorrhzal fungi in mineral soil to determine how abiotic preferences influence their spatial distribution in stratified soil profiles. This i...

Competition-function tradeoffs in ectomycorrhizal fungi

Background. The extent to which ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate primary production, carbon storage, and nutrient remineralization in terrestrial ecosystems depends upon fungal community composition. However, the factors that govern community composition at the root system scale are not well understood. Here, we explore a potential tradeoff between ectomycorrhizal fungal competitive ability and en...

Evolutionary studies of ectomycorrhizal fungi: recent advances and future directions1

The three biggest advances in fungal molecular phylogenetics in the last few years have been (1) the huge expansion in data sets, (2) the development of nonribosomal loci for phylogenetic analysis, and (3) the use of increasingly sophisticated types of analyses. In addition, advances in parallel computing hold great promise for dramatic increases in speed of analysis. These changes have had, or...