Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101388
Claudia Bashian-Victoroff , Ruth D. Yanai , Thomas R. Horton , Louis J. Lamit
{"title":"Nitrogen and phosphorus additions affect fruiting of ectomycorrhizal fungi in a temperate hardwood forest","authors":"Claudia Bashian-Victoroff , Ruth D. Yanai , Thomas R. Horton , Louis J. Lamit","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The functioning of mycorrhizal symbioses is tied to soil nutrient status, suggesting that nutrient availability should influence the reproduction of mycorrhizal fungi. To quantify the effects of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) availability on ectomycorrhizal fungal fruiting, we collected >4000 epigeous sporocarps representing 19 families during the course of a season in a full factorial NxP addition experiment in six replicate forest stands. Nutrient effects on fruiting shifted as the season progressed, with early fruiting species responding more to P and late-fruiting species responding more to N. The composition of species fruiting in young successional forests differed more with nutrient addition than in mature forests. Sporocarp abundance and species richness were suppressed by N addition. This work shows that N and P availability affect ectomycorrhizal fungal fruiting, with these effects taking place within a context defined by stand age and the progression of fruiting across the season.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"73 ","pages":"Article 101388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101386
Ai-Ling Yang , Yi-Shan Chen , Liang Mei , Jing Guo , Han-Bo Zhang
{"title":"Disease risk of the foliar endophyte Colletotrichum from invasive Ageratina adenophora to native plants and crops","authors":"Ai-Ling Yang , Yi-Shan Chen , Liang Mei , Jing Guo , Han-Bo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101386","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101386","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The disease risk driven by foliar fungi asymptomatically infecting invasive plants has rarely been determined. In this study, we selected 44 foliar <em>Colletotrichum</em> endophytes isolated from the invasive plant <em>Ageratina adenophora</em> that are phylogenetically closely related to the <em>C. gloeosporioides</em> complex, <em>C. boninense</em> complex, <em>C. orchidearum</em> complex, and <em>C. acutatum</em> complex and evaluated their potential virulence and ability to transmit spores to native plants and cash crops both <em>in vitro</em> and <em>in vivo</em>. We verified that some foliar endophyte <em>Colletotrichum</em> strains adversely affect the leaf and seed germination of native plants and cash crops. Some strains reduce the growth and yield of tomato (SL) (<em>Solanum lycopersicum</em>) and pepper (CA) (<em>Capsicum annuum</em>) plants and even cause the death of strawberry (FA) plants (<em>Fragaria ananassa</em>). Moreover, we confirmed that <em>A. adenophora</em> leaves could horizontally transmit <em>Colletotrichum</em> to surrounding crop plants <em>in vivo</em>. Therefore, a high abundance of <em>Colletotrichum</em> asymptomatically associated with <em>A. adenophora</em> leaves might increase disease risk in surrounding native plants and cash crops. Our results provide a new perspective for regional ecological risk assessment of invasive plants and prevention of economic plant diseases in the invaded range.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101385
G. Attrill , L. Boddy , E. Dudley , B. Greenfield , D.C. Eastwood
{"title":"Transcriptomic and protein analysis of Trametes versicolor interacting with a Hypholoma fasciculare mycelium foraging in soil","authors":"G. Attrill , L. Boddy , E. Dudley , B. Greenfield , D.C. Eastwood","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101385","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101385","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The decomposition of large woody material is an important process in forest carbon cycling and nutrient release. Cord-forming saprotrophic basidiomycete fungi create non-resource limited mycelial networks between decomposing branches, logs and tree stumps on the forest floor where colonisation of new resources is often associated with the replacement of incumbent decay communities. To date, antagonism experiments have mostly placed competing fungi in direct contact, while in nature cord-forming saprobes encounter colonised wood as mycelia in a network. Transcriptomic and peptide analyses were conducted on soil-based microcosms were foraging cord-forming <em>Hypholoma fasciculare</em> encountered a wood block colonised by <em>Trametes versicolor</em>. Protein turnover featured strongly for both species and genes putatively involved in secondary metabolite production were identified. <em>H. fasciculare</em> demonstrated an exploitative profile with increased transcription of genes associated with carbohydrate metabolism and RNA and ribosome processing. <em>T. versicolor</em> showed a shift in signalling, energy generation and amino acid metabolism. By identifying genes and proteins putatively involved in this fungal interaction, this work may help guide the discovery of bioactive molecules and mechanisms underpinning community succession.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101385"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial resource arrangement influences both network structures and activity of fungal mycelia: A form of pattern recognition?","authors":"Yu Fukasawa , Kosuke Hamano , Koji Kaga , Daisuke Akai , Takayuki Takehi","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101387","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101387","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study investigated the behavior and wood decay ability of mycelial network of <em>Phanerochaete velutina</em>, a cord-forming fungus, on multiple wood blocks. We placed well-colonized wood blocks in two spatial arrangements (Circle and Cross) on a soil plate and compared the development of the mycelial network and wood decay over 116 days. In the Circle arrangement, the degree of connection (number of connected cords) of the blocks ranged from 0 to 8, with no significant differences observed across positions. However, in the Cross arrangement, the outer blocks exhibited a greater degree of connection than the inner blocks. The mass loss of the wood block was positively associated with the degree of connection and was significantly smaller in the Cross than in the Circle arrangement. These findings suggest that fungal mycelium can “recognize” the difference in the spatial arrangement of wood blocks as part of their wood decay activity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504824000588/pdfft?md5=08525855ab040106b04e401f0b5bee62&pid=1-s2.0-S1754504824000588-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Habitat loss, extinction debt and climate change threaten terricolous lichens in lowland open dry habitats","authors":"Gabriele Gheza , Zeno Porro , Matteo Barcella , Silvia Assini , Juri Nascimbene","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Habitat loss is the main driver of biodiversity decline worldwide. An immediate consequence can be extinction debt, i.e. time-delayed extinction of species following habitat loss. We tested extinction debt in terricolous lichen communities in 45 patches of lowland open dry habitats in the western Po Plain (northern Italy) considering richness of four species groups: total, red-listed, rare, and common species. The distance from the currently nearest patch and the annual precipitation correlated – negatively and positively, respectively – with all the groups. Total, red-listed, and rare species were positively related to the oldest available patch extent (1954). Common species were positively related to the current (2020) patch extent. Total and red-listed species were negatively related to the extent difference (1954–2020). Results reveal an extinction debt which has not yet been completely paid and that could be exacerbated by climate change. To counteract this trend, management should conserve habitat patches with the highest species richness, improve connectivity between habitat patches, and provide suitable microrefugia for species with different ecological requirements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504824000552/pdfft?md5=4f2b62e848fcd1e7157cab188c47375c&pid=1-s2.0-S1754504824000552-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142151512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101383
Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita , Lara Vimercati , Dongying Wu , Mary K. Childress , August Danz , Arthur C. Grupe , Danny Haelewaters , Natalie M. Hyde , Thiago Kossmann , Charles Oliver , Candice Perrotta , Benjamin D. Young , Steven K. Schmidt , Susannah G. Tringe , C. Alisha Quandt
{"title":"Fungal diversity and function in metagenomes sequenced from extreme environments","authors":"Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita , Lara Vimercati , Dongying Wu , Mary K. Childress , August Danz , Arthur C. Grupe , Danny Haelewaters , Natalie M. Hyde , Thiago Kossmann , Charles Oliver , Candice Perrotta , Benjamin D. Young , Steven K. Schmidt , Susannah G. Tringe , C. Alisha Quandt","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101383","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101383","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fungi are increasingly recognized as key players in various extreme environments. Here we present an analysis of publicly-sourced metagenomes from global extreme environments, focusing on fungal taxonomy and function. The majority of 855 selected metagenomes contained scaffolds assigned to fungi. Relative abundance of fungi was as high as 10% of protein-coding genes with taxonomic annotation, with up to 289 fungal genera per sample. Despite taxonomic clustering by environment, fungal communities were more dissimilar than archaeal and bacterial communities, both for within- and between-environment comparisons. Relatively abundant fungal classes in extreme environments included Dothideomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycetes, Saccharomycetes, and Sordariomycetes. Broad generalists and prolific aerial spore formers were the most relatively abundant fungal genera detected in most of the extreme environments, bringing up the question of whether they are actively growing in those environments or just surviving as spores. More specialized fungi were common in some environments, such as zoosporic taxa in cryosphere water and hot springs. Relative abundances of genes involved in adaptation to general, thermal, oxidative, and osmotic stress were greatest in soda lake, acid mine drainage, and cryosphere water samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101383"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504824000540/pdfft?md5=b602e42e38bc48331ff769e567a1ecc1&pid=1-s2.0-S1754504824000540-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142098208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101375
Mattias Edman , Anna-Maria Eriksson , Fredrik Carlsson , Tomas Rydkvist
{"title":"Veteranising Scots pine trees by initiating tree hollowing: Inoculation with the fungal keystone species Porodaedalia pini","authors":"Mattias Edman , Anna-Maria Eriksson , Fredrik Carlsson , Tomas Rydkvist","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hollow trees are crucial for forest biodiversity but are becoming increasingly rare in many ecosystems, including the Scots pine forests of northern Europe. Here, we inoculated heartwood of live Scots pine trees with the fungal keystone species <em>Porodaedalia pini</em> to initiate tree hollowing. The fungus was inoculated in 50-, 110- and 170-year old stands, using wood dowels containing mycelia. Three different strains were used to test for intraspecific variation. Molecular analysis of samples from inoculated trees seven years after treatment showed that 67% were successfully colonised, with no differences between stands. Fungal strain had no effect on colonisation success. Our findings suggest that inoculation with <em>P. pini</em> has the potential to be an efficient method to restore a key ecological process, tree hollowing, in degraded Scots pine forests. The possibility of initiating the process even in young trees may be a way to accelerate the formation of hollow pines in younger forests.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"72 ","pages":"Article 101375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504824000461/pdfft?md5=f8d6f2a79178ca30e86267ee49992fac&pid=1-s2.0-S1754504824000461-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101373
Stephen Mifsud , Carlo Agnello , Mirko Calanni Rindina , Joan Carles Salom , Michael Loizides , Franck Richard , Jean-Michel Bellanger
{"title":"Morchella galilaea – Expanded phylogeography and relaxed seasonality of a globally distributed autumnal morel","authors":"Stephen Mifsud , Carlo Agnello , Mirko Calanni Rindina , Joan Carles Salom , Michael Loizides , Franck Richard , Jean-Michel Bellanger","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101373","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101373","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><em>Morchella galilaea</em> is unique among morels by its autumnal fruiting and a worldwide but disjunct distribution, strongly biased towards islands. The drivers of this reversed seasonality and transcontinental dispersal remain poorly understood. New records of <em>M. galilaea</em> from several islands of the Mediterranean, and from the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, all unveiled here, invited us to revisit and discuss the biogeography, phenology and ecology of this intriguing morel. Our ecological and molecular findings do not support recent anthropogenic introductions as causal for the tropism of <em>M. galilaea</em> for islands. Instead, we postulate a tentative model of evolution in which the paleotropical origins of the species may be responsible for the release of strict seasonality constraints inherited early during the genus’ evolutionary history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101374
Maho Inoue , Jan Woyzichovski , Ángela López-Villalba , Oleg Shchepin , Anja Klahr , Yuri K. Novozhilov , Martin Schnittler
{"title":"Using barcoding to reveal ecological patterns of nivicolous myxomycetes in the German Alps: How do they deal with varying snow conditions?","authors":"Maho Inoue , Jan Woyzichovski , Ángela López-Villalba , Oleg Shchepin , Anja Klahr , Yuri K. Novozhilov , Martin Schnittler","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A transect in the German limestone Alps was monitored over ten years for nivicolous myxomycetes to test if species display stable altitudinal belts for fruiting. The data set comprised 1368 barcoded specimens assigned to 112 ribotypes forming 51 ribogroups. Ribogroups were largely consistent with 35 identified morphospecies, although in eleven cases a morphospecies included several ribogroups. Fructification abundance correlated with duration of the snow cover inferred from data loggers placed at ground height. Morphospecies, ribogroups, and ribotypes showed a peak of fructification abundance at different elevations in different years. Species composition, not abundances, showed a high overlap with soil metabarcoding data. Thirteen ribogroups detected in the metabarcoding data set were never found as fructifications. This survey demonstrates that nivicolous myxomycetes are opportunists, which are likely to persist as trophic or resting stages independent from snow cover, but fruit only in altitudes and years with snow cover stable over several months.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175450482400045X/pdfft?md5=c025bc4929d3a89f7774a81428b07ef2&pid=1-s2.0-S175450482400045X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141623247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fungal EcologyPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101372
Talia Michaud , Erik Hobbie , Peter Kennedy
{"title":"Carbon cycling through plant and fungal herbarium specimens tracks the Suess effect over more than a century of environmental change","authors":"Talia Michaud , Erik Hobbie , Peter Kennedy","doi":"10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the anthropogenic decline in atmospheric carbon stable isotope ratios (δ<sup>13</sup>C) over the last 150 years (termed the Suess effect) is well-studied, how different terrestrial trophic levels and modes reflect this decline remains unresolved. To evaluate the Suess effect as an opportunistic tracer of terrestrial forest carbon cycling, this study analyzed the δ<sup>13</sup>C in herbarium specimens collected in Minnesota, USA from 1877 to 2019. Our results suggest that both broadleaf trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi relied on recent photosynthate to produce leaves and sporocarps, while saprotrophic fungi on average used carbon fixed from the atmosphere 32–55 years ago for sporocarp construction. The δ<sup>13</sup>C values of saprotrophic fungal collections were also sensitive to the age of their plant carbon substrate, with sporocarps of twig specialists tracking changes in atmospheric δ<sup>13</sup>C more closely than saprotrophs growing on logs. Collectively, this study indicates that natural history collections can quantitatively track carbon cycling among plants and fungi over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55136,"journal":{"name":"Fungal Ecology","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 101372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}