Landscape scale ecology of Tetracladium spp. fungal root endophytes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The genus Tetracladium De Wild. (Ascomycota) has been traditionally regarded as a group of Ingoldian fungi or aquatic hyphomycetes-a polyphyletic group of phylogenetically diverse fungi which grow on decaying leaves and plant litter in streams. Recent sequencing evidence has shown that Tetracladium spp. may also exist as root endophytes in terrestrial environments, and furthermore may have beneficial effects on the health and growth of their host. However, the diversity of Tetracladium spp. communities in terrestrial systems and the factors which shape their distribution are largely unknown.

Results

Using a fungal community internal transcribed spacer amplicon dataset from 37 UK Brassica napus fields we found that soils contained diverse Tetracladium spp., most of

SUBMITTER: Lazar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9310467 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature