Alien plants associate with widespread generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal taxa: evidence from a continental‐scale study using massively parallel 454 sequencing

By M. Moora, Silje Berger, J. Davison, M. Öpik, R. Bommarco, Helge Bruelheide, I. Kühn, W. Kunin, M. Metsis, A. Rortais and 7 more. 2011

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Aim The biogeography of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is poorly understood, and consequently the potential of AM fungi to determine plant distribution has been largely overlooked. We aimed to describe AM fungal communities associating with a single host‐plant species across a wide geographical area, including the plant’s native, invasive and experimentally introduced ranges. We hypothesized that an alien AM plant associates primarily with the geographically widespread generalist AM fungal taxa present in a novel range.

Subfields: Cell Biology, Insect Science, Plant Science

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Extracellular enzymes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments: perspectives on system variability and common research needs (2013, background): “…given the differences in community composition between freshwaters and marine waters (e.g. Bouvier and del Giorgio 2002; Crump et al. 2004; Silveira et al. 2011), soils (Lauber et al. 2009; Moora et al. 2011; Rout and Callaway 2012), and the marine water column and sediments (Zinger et al. 2011).”
Invasive belowground mutualists of woody plants (2014, background): “Cosmopolitan associations appear common in some groups, where a few low-specificity cosmopolitan species are common on invasive plants (Benson and Dawson 2007; Moora et al. 2011; Knapp et al. 2012).”
High-Coverage ITS Primers for the DNA-Based Identification of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes in Environmental Samples (2012, background): “Although the number of ITS sequences in public sequence databases is growing rapidly [22,23], many studies use small or large subunit ribosomal RNA sequences as a DNA barcoding marker [34–38].”
Do native and invasive plants differ in their interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi? A meta‐analysis (2015, background): “…specificity is relatively low in the AM symbiosis, prompting suggestions that AM fungi are unlikely to influence invasion trajectories (Richardson et al. 2000) because invading plants can form novel symbioses and/ or associate with cosmopolitan AM fungi (Moora et al. 2011; Nu~nez & Dickie 2014).”