What do we learn from cultures in the omics age? High-throughput sequencing and cultivation of leaf-inhabiting endophytes from beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) revealed complementary community composition but similar correlations with local habitat conditions

The genome of Xylona heveae provides a window into fungal endophytism

(2016) Romina Gazis et al.   Fungal Biology

A cost-effective and efficient strategy for Illumina sequencing of fungal communities: A case study of beech endophytes identified elevation as main explanatory factor for diversity and community composition

(2016) A.B. Siddique et al.   Fungal Ecology

Richness of cultivable endophytic fungi along an altitudinal gradient in wet forests of Costa Rica

(2016) Keilor Rojas-Jimenez et al.   Fungal Ecology

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

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

Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

(2016) Witoon Purahong et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The diverse community of leaf-inhabiting fungal endophytes from Philippine natural forests reflects phylogenetic patterns of their host plant species Ficus benjamina, F. elastica and F. religiosa

(2016) Michael Jay L. Solis et al.   MYCOSCIENCE

Habitat conditions and phenological tree traits overrule the influence of tree genotype in the needle mycobiome-Picea glaucasystem at an arctic treeline ecotone

(2016) Pascal Eusemann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biatriospora (Ascomycota: Pleosporales) is an ecologically diverse genus including facultative marine fungi and endophytes with biotechnological potential

(2016) Miroslav Kolařík et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparison between cultivated and total bacterial communities associated with Cucurbita pepo using cultivation-dependent techniques and 454 pyrosequencing

(2016) N. Eevers et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Annotating public fungal ITS sequences from the built environment according to the MIxS-Built Environment standard – a report from a May 23-24, 2016 workshop (Gothenburg, Sweden)

(2016) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   MycoKeys

Diversity and Composition of the Leaf Mycobiome of Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Are Affected by Local Habitat Conditions and Leaf Biochemistry

(2016) Martin Unterseher et al.   PLoS One

Fungal endophytes of Vanilla planifolia across Réunion Island: isolation, distribution and biotransformation

(2015) Shahnoo Khoyratty et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

The local environment determines the assembly of root endophytic fungi at a continental scale

(2015) Kyriaki Glynou et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A comparison of the community diversity of foliar fungal endophytes between seedling and adult loblolly pines ( Pinus taeda )

(2015) Ryoko Oono et al.   Fungal Biology

Plant-associated fungal communities in the light of meta’omics

(2015) Derek Peršoh   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Wild trees in the Amazon basin harbor a great diversity of beneficial endosymbiotic fungi: is this evidence of protective mutualism?

(2015) Romina Gazis et al.   Fungal Ecology

Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts?

(2015) Shawn P. Brown et al.   Fungal Ecology

Evaluation of culture-based techniques and 454 pyrosequencing for the analysis of fungal diversity in potting media and organic fertilizers

(2015) A.M. Al-Sadi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

A Comprehensive, Automatically Updated Fungal ITS Sequence Dataset for Reference-Based Chimera Control in Environmental Sequencing Efforts

(2015) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory

(2015) Natalie Christian et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi

(2014) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

An investigation of the biodiversity of thermophilic and thermotolerant fungal species in composts using culture-based and molecular techniques

(2014) Adrian Langarica-Fuentes et al.   Fungal Ecology

Relocation, high-latitude warming and host genetic identity shape the foliar fungal microbiome of poplars

(2014) Miklós Bálint et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The rich and the sensitive: diverse fungal communities change functionally with the warming Arctic

(2014) Ari Jumpponen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Insights into Deep-Sea Sediment Fungal Communities from the East Indian Ocean Using Targeted Environmental Sequencing Combined with Traditional Cultivation

(2014) Xiao-yong Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences

(2014) Jai Ram Rideout et al.   PeerJ

Endophytic fungi from Peruvian highland and lowland habitats form distinctive and host plant-specific assemblages

(2013) Martin Unterseher et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) co-occur in leaf litter but are rare on decaying wood of the same host

(2013) Martin Unterseher et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Factors shaping community structure of endophytic fungi–evidence from the Pinus-Viscum-system

(2013) Derek Peršoh   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

(2013) Urmas Kõljalg et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of deep-sequenced fungal communities indicates limited taxon sharing between studies and the presence of biogeographic patterns

(2013) Anjuli Meiser et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data

(2013) Johan Bengtsson-Palme et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale

(2012) Jana M. U'Ren et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Responses of bacterial and fungal communities to an elevation gradient in a subtropical montane forest of China

(2012) Han Meng et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Spatio-temporal dynamics of endophyte diversity in the canopy of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

(2012) Almut Scholtysik et al.   MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS

The composition of phyllosphere fungal assemblages of European beech (Fagus sylvatica ) varies significantly along an elevation gradient

(2012) Tristan Cordier et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fungal endophyte communities reflect environmental structuring across a Hawaiian landscape

(2012) N. B. Zimmerman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Endophytic fungi in European aspen (Populus tremula) leaves—diversity, detection, and a suggested correlation with herbivory resistance

(2010) Benedicte R. Albrectsen et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles

(2009) R. J. Rodriguez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dilution-to-extinction cultivation of leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi in beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) – Different cultivation techniques influence fungal biodiversity assessment

(2009) Martin Unterseher et al.