Evaluation of host effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal community compositions in a forested landscape in northern Japan.

ABSTRACT: Community compositions of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are similar within the same host taxa. However, careful interpretation is required to determine whether the combination of ECM fungi and plants is explained by the host preference for ECM fungi, or by the influence of neighbouring heterospecific hosts. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of host species on the ECM community compositions in a forested landscape (approx. 10 km) where monodominant forest stands of six ECM host species belonging to three families were patchily distributed. A total of 180 ECM operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were detected with DNA metabarcoding. Quantitative multivariate analyses revealed that the ECM community compositions were primarily structured by host species and families, regardle

SUBMITTER: Matsuoka S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7062096 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature