Root attributes dominate the community assembly of soil fungal functional guilds across arid inland river basin.

ABSTRACT: Plant attributes are increasingly acknowledged as key drivers shaping soil fungal communities, but considerable uncertainty exists over fungal community assembly mechanisms and their plant drivers based only on inferences from plant aboveground attributes. To date, empirical evidences of how root attributes are integrated into microbiome-plant linkages remain limited. Using 162 soil samples from a typical arid inland river basin in China, we assessed the drivers that regulate the distribution patterns and assembly processes of total, mycorrhizal, saprotrophic and pathotrophic fungi in surface (0-15 cm) and subsurface soils (15-30 cm). Total fungi and fungal functional guilds exhibited similar distribution patterns in arid inland river basins. Null-model and variance partitioning analysis r

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355615 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature