Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in the Soils of Desert Habitats.

ABSTRACT: Deserts cover a significant proportion of the Earth's surface and continue to expand as a consequence of climate change. Mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are functionally important plant root symbionts, and may be particularly important in drought stressed systems such as deserts. Here we provide a first molecular characterization of the AM fungi occurring in several desert ecosystems worldwide. We sequenced AM fungal DNA from soil samples collected from deserts in six different regions of the globe using the primer pair WANDA-AML2 with Illumina MiSeq. We recorded altogether 50 AM fungal phylotypes. Glomeraceae was the most common family, while Claroideoglomeraceae, Diversisporaceae and Acaulosporaceae were represented with lower frequency and abundance. T

SUBMITTER: Vasar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7912695 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature