A meta-barcoding analysis of soil mycobiota of the upper Andean Colombian agro-environment.

ABSTRACT: Colombia is a country for which one of the highest biodiversity rates is reported, and one of the first in the tropical areas where an effort was made to gather information on indigenous fungi. Nevertheless, mycological data are still scarce and discontinuous, above all on soil fungi. The present study wanted to contribute to unveil the large soil fungal biodiversity in the upper Andean Colombian agro-ecosystems. The studied area is located in the department of Boyacà, considered with a notable economical value, partly devoted to subsistence agriculture. More than 150 described species were revealed in this study, belonging to 5 phyla with Ascomycota representing the dominant taxon. Basidiomycota and Zygomycota are also well represented, dominated by species of the genus Sebacina and Morti

SUBMITTER: Landinez-Torres A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6625999 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature