TraitAM, a global spore trait database for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge regarding organismal traits supports a better understanding of the relationship between form and function and can be used to predict the consequences of environmental stressors on ecological and evolutionary processes. Most plants on Earth form symbioses with mycorrhizal fungi, but our ability to make trait-based inferences for these fungi is limited due to a lack of publicly available trait data. Here, we present TraitAM, a comprehensive database of multiple spore traits for all described species of the most common group of mycorrhizal fungi, the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (subphylum Glomeromycotina). Trait data for 344 species were mined from original species descriptions and used to calculate newly developed fungal trait metrics that can be employed to explore both intr

SUBMITTER: Chaudhary VB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11978867 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature