Mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi structure forest below-ground symbiosis through contrasting but interdependent assembly processes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interactions between plants and diverse root-associated fungi are essential drivers of forest ecosystem dynamics. The symbiosis is potentially dependent on multiple ecological factors/processes such as host/symbiont specificity, background soil microbiome, inter-root dispersal of symbionts, and fungus-fungus interactions within roots. Nonetheless, it has remained a major challenge to reveal the mechanisms by which those multiple factors/processes determine the assembly of root-associated fungal communities. Based on the framework of joint species distribution modeling, we examined 1,615 root-tips samples collected in a cool-temperate forest to reveal how root-associated fungal community structure was collectively formed through filtering by host plants, associations with

SUBMITTER: Noguchi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11531145 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature