Original Leaf Colonisers Shape Fungal Decomposer Communities of Phragmites australis in Intermittent Habitats.

ABSTRACT: Common reed (Phragmites australis) has high biomass production and is primarily subjected to decomposition processes affected by multiple factors. To predict litter decomposition dynamics in intermittent lakes, it is critical to understand how communities of fungi, as the primary decomposers, form under different habitat conditions. This study reports the shotgun metagenomic sequencing of the initial fungal communities on common reed leaves decomposing under different environmental conditions. We demonstrate that a complex network of fungi forms already on the plant persists into the decomposition phase. Phragmites australis leaves contained at least five fungal phyla, with abundant Ascomycota (95.7%) and Basidiomycota (4.1%), identified as saprotrophs (48.6%), pathotrophs (22.5%), and sym

SUBMITTER: Likar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8951327 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature