Decay by ectomycorrhizal fungi couples soil organic matter to nitrogen availability

Quantifying microbial control of soil organic matter dynamics at macrosystem scales

(2021) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Biogeochemistry

A tipping point in carbon storage when forest expands into tundra is related to mycorrhizal recycling of nitrogen

(2021) Karina Engelbrecht Clemmensen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest

(2021) Björn D. Lindahl et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Coupled Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Communities and Plant Uptake of Organic Nitrogen Along a Soil Gradient: An Isotopic Perspective

(2021) Peter T. Pellitier et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

(2021) C. Terrer et al.   NATURE

Soil fertility relates to fungal‐mediated decomposition and organic matter turnover in a temperate mountain forest

(2021) Mathias Mayer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ectomycorrhizal fungal decay traits along a soil nitrogen gradient

(2021) Peter T. Pellitier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ectomycorrhizal access to organic nitrogen mediates CO2 fertilization response in a dominant temperate tree

(2021) Peter T. Pellitier et al.   Nature Communications

Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity predicted to substantially decline due to climate changes in North American Pinaceae forests

(2020) Brian S. Steidinger et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Putting science back into microbial ecology: a question of approach

(2020) James I. Prosser   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large-scale genome sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits

(2020) Shingo Miyauchi et al.   Nature Communications

Genomic Analysis Enlightens Agaricales Lifestyle Evolution and Increasing Peroxidase Diversity

(2020) Francisco J Ruiz-Dueñas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Plant-mediated partner discrimination in ectomycorrhizal mutualisms

(2019) Laura Bogar et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics

(2019) Donald R. Zak et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resource‐ratio theory predicts mycorrhizal control of litter decomposition

(2019) Gabriel R. Smith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shifts in Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities and Exploration Types Relate to the Environment and Fine-Root Traits Across Interior Douglas-Fir Forests of Western Canada

(2019) Camille E. Defrenne et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Anthropogenic N deposition, fungal gene expression, and an increasing soil carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere

(2019) Donald R. Zak et al.   ECOLOGY

Anthropogenic N deposition alters soil organic matter biochemistry and microbial communities on decaying fine roots

(2019) William A. Argiroff et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bioinformatics matters: The accuracy of plant and soil fungal community data is highly dependent on the metabarcoding pipeline

(2019) Charlie Pauvert et al.   Fungal Ecology

Environmental filtering structures fungal endophyte communities in tree bark

(2019) Peter T. Pellitier et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Decelerated carbon cycling by ectomycorrhizal fungi is controlled by substrate quality and community composition

(2019) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Anthropogenic N deposition increases soil C storage by reducing the relative abundance of lignolytic fungi

(2018) Elizabeth M. Entwistle et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Contrasting effects of ectomycorrhizal fungi on early and late stage decomposition in a boreal forest

(2018) Erica Sterkenburg et al.   ISME Journal

Clearcutting alters decomposition processes and initiates complex restructuring of fungal communities in soil and tree roots

(2018) Petr Kohout et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative genomics and transcriptomics depict ericoid mycorrhizal fungi as versatile saprotrophs and plant mutualists

(2018) Elena Martino et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Anthropogenic N Deposition Alters the Composition of Expressed Class II Fungal Peroxidases

(2018) Elizabeth M. Entwistle et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Continental-scale nitrogen pollution is shifting forest mycorrhizal associations and soil carbon stocks

(2018) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting dynamics and trait controls in first-order root compared with leaf litter decomposition

(2018) Tao Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A keystone microbial enzyme for nitrogen control of soil carbon storage

(2018) Ji Chen et al.   Science Advances

Mycobiome diversity: high-throughput sequencing and identification of fungi

(2018) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications

(2018) Rolf Henrik Nilsson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Nitrogen limitation of decomposition and decay: How can it occur?

(2017) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Role of plant–fungal nutrient trading and host control in determining the competitive success of ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2017) Sara Hortal et al.   ISME Journal

Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis

(2017) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   ISME Journal

Large historical growth in global terrestrial gross primary production

(2017) J. E. Campbell et al.   NATURE

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and the enzymatic liberation of nitrogen from soil organic matter: why evolutionary history matters

(2017) Peter T. Pellitier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A multi-gene phylogeny of Lactifluus (Basidiomycota, Russulales) translated into a new infrageneric classification of the genus

(2017) E. De Crop et al.   PERSOONIA

Changes in substrate availability drive carbon cycle response to chronic warming

(2017) Grace Pold et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Accurate Estimation of Fungal Diversity and Abundance through Improved Lineage-Specific Primers Optimized for Illumina Amplicon Sequencing

(2016) D. Lee Taylor et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal fungi slow soil carbon cycling

(2016) Colin Averill et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild

(2016) Nhu H. Nguyen et al.   Fungal Ecology

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Modelling the influence of ectomycorrhizal decomposition on plant nutrition and soil carbon sequestration in boreal forest ecosystems

(2016) Preetisri Baskaran et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

(2016) C. Terrer et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative Genomics of Early-Diverging Mushroom-Forming Fungi Provides Insights into the Origins of Lignocellulose Decay Capabilities

(2015) László G. Nagy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Initial colonization, community assembly and ecosystem function: fungal colonist traits and litter biochemistry mediate decay rate

(2015) Lauren C. Cline et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists

(2015) Annegret Kohler et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Changes in fungal communities along a boreal forest soil fertility gradient

(2015) Erica Sterkenburg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors

(2015) Firoz Shah et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fine roots are the dominant source of recalcitrant plant litter in sugar maple-dominated northern hardwood forests

(2015) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Revisiting the ‘Gadgil effect’: do interguild fungal interactions control carbon cycling in forest soils?

(2015) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fine root decomposition, nutrient mobilization and fungal communities in a pine forest ecosystem

(2015) Ang Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

EctomycorrhizalCortinariusspecies participate in enzymatic oxidation of humus in northern forest ecosystems

(2014) Inga T. M. Bödeker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ectomycorrhizal fungi - potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

(2014) Björn D. Lindahl et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long-term succession in boreal forests

(2014) Karina E. Clemmensen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Expansion of the enzymatic repertoire of the CAZy database to integrate auxiliary redox enzymes

(2013) Anthony Levasseur et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

A first comprehensive census of fungi in soil reveals both hyperdiversity and fine-scale niche partitioning

(2013) D. Lee Taylor et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon-nutrient couplings in temperate forests

(2013) Richard P. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The carbohydrate-active enzymes database (CAZy) in 2013

(2013) Vincent Lombard et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Denoising PCR-amplified metagenome data

(2012) Michael J Rosen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus converts organic matter in plant litter using a trimmed brown-rot mechanism involving Fenton chemistry

(2012) Francois Rineau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

(2012) D. Floudas et al.   SCIENCE

Chronic N deposition does not apparently alter the biochemical composition of forest floor and soil organic matter

(2012) Dana C. Thomas et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Organic nutrient uptake by mycorrhizal fungi enhances ecosystem carbon storage: a model-based assessment

(2011) Kate H. Orwin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conservation of biotrophy in Hygrophoraceae inferred from combined stable isotope and phylogenetic analyses

(2011) Brian H. Seitzman et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Fast stable restricted maximum likelihood and marginal likelihood estimation of semiparametric generalized linear models

(2010) Simon N. Wood   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

Ephemeral root modules in Fraxinus mandshurica

(2010) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A new method for detecting and interpreting biodiversity and ecological community thresholds

(2010) Matthew E. Baker et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

ShortRead: a bioconductor package for input, quality assessment and exploration of high-throughput sequence data

(2009) M. Morgan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

SIMULATED ATMOSPHERIC NO3−DEPOSITION INCREASES SOIL ORGANIC MATTER BY SLOWING DECOMPOSITION

(2009) Donald R. Zak et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The influence of microbial communities, management, and soil texture on soil organic matter chemistry

(2009) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   GEODERMA

ClassII peroxidase-encoding genes are present in a phylogenetically wide range of ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2009) Inga T M Bödeker et al.   ISME Journal

Fine root decomposition rates do not mirror those of leaf litter among temperate tree species

(2009) Sarah E. Hobbie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and their enzymes in soils: is there enough evidence for their role as facultative soil saprotrophs?

(2009) Petr Baldrian   OECOLOGIA