Democratization of fungal highway columns as a tool to investigate bacteria associated with soil fungi.

ABSTRACT: Bacteria-fungi interactions (BFIs) are essential in ecosystem functioning. These interactions are modulated not only by local nutritional conditions but also by the physicochemical constraints and 3D structure of the environmental niche. In soils, the unsaturated and complex nature of the substrate restricts the dispersal and activity of bacteria. Under unsaturated conditions, some bacteria engage with filamentous fungi in an interaction (fungal highways) in which they use fungal hyphae to disperse. Based on a previous experimental device to enrich pairs of organisms engaging in this interaction in soils, we present here the design and validation of a modified version of this sampling system constructed using additive printing. The 3D printed devices were tested using a novel application i

SUBMITTER: Junier P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7878174 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature