Growing evidence for facultative biotrophy in saprotrophic fungi: data from microcosm tests with 201 species of wood-decay basidiomycetes

Kingdom-Wide Analysis of Fungal Small Secreted Proteins (SSPs) Reveals their Potential Role in Host Association

(2016) Ki-Tae Kim et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The importance of associations with saprotrophic non-Rhizoctoniafungi among fully mycoheterotrophic orchids is currently under-estimated: novel evidence from sub-tropical Asia

(2015) Yung-I Lee et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

(2015) Annegret Kohler et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

(2015) Firoz Shah et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Molecular signals required for the establishment and maintenance of ectomycorrhizal symbioses

(2015) Kevin Garcia 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

Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future

(2015) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of Laccaria bicolor CAZome reveals insights into polysaccharides remodelling during symbiosis establishment

(2014) Claire Veneault-Fourrey et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Mycorrhiza-mediated competition between plants and decomposers drives soil carbon storage

(2014) Colin Averill et al.   NATURE

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

Plant pattern-recognition receptors

(2014) Cyril Zipfel   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal fungi contribute to soil organic matter cycling in sub-boreal forests

(2013) Lori A Phillips et al.   ISME Journal

Carbon availability triggers the decomposition of plant litter and assimilation of nitrogen by an ectomycorrhizal fungus

(2013) F Rineau et al.   ISME Journal

Lineages of ectomycorrhizal fungi revisited: Foraging strategies and novel lineages revealed by sequences from belowground

(2013) Leho Tedersoo et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

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

Occurrence and impact of the root-rot biocontrol agent Phlebiopsis gigantea on soil fungal communities in Picea abies forests of northern Europe

(2012) Audrius Menkis et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Insight into trade-off between wood decay and parasitism from the genome of a fungal forest pathogen

(2012) Åke Olson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Irreversible Loss of a Decomposition Pathway Marks the Single Origin of an Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis

(2012) Benjamin E. Wolfe et al.   PLoS One

Independent roles of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic communities in soil organic matter decomposition

(2012) Jennifer M. Talbot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A Secreted Effector Protein of Laccaria bicolor Is Required for Symbiosis Development

(2011) Jonathan M. Plett et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Modulation of Host Immunity by Beneficial Microbes

(2011) Christos Zamioudis et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

The ectomycorrhizal fungus Tricholoma matsutake is a facultative saprotroph in vitro

(2011) Lu-Min Vaario et al.   MYCORRHIZA

The Plant Cell Wall-Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

(2011) D. C. Eastwood et al.   SCIENCE

Périgord black truffle genome uncovers evolutionary origins and mechanisms of symbiosis

(2010) Francis Martin et al.   NATURE

New insights into the mycorrhizal Rhizoscyphus ericae aggregate: spatial structure and co-colonization of ectomycorrhizal and ericoid roots

(2010) Gwen-Aëlle Grelet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Blurred boundaries: lifestyle lessons from ectomycorrhizal fungal genomes

(2010) Jonathan M. Plett et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Impact of white-rot fungi on numbers and community composition of bacteria colonizing beech wood from forest soil

(2009) Larissa B. Folman et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Reduced genomic potential for secreted plant cell-wall-degrading enzymes in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita bisporigera, based on the secretome of Trichoderma reesei

(2009) Subashini Nagendran et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages

(2009) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Independent recruitment of saprotrophic fungi as mycorrhizal partners by tropical achlorophyllous orchids

(2009) Florent Martos et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pep1, a Secreted Effector Protein of Ustilago maydis, Is Required for Successful Invasion of Plant Cells

(2009) Gunther Doehlemann et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis

(2008) F. Martin et al.   NATURE

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and the biotrophy–saprotrophy continuum

(2008) Roger T. Koide et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST