The function of melanin in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Cenococcum geophilum under water stress

By Christopher W. Fernandez, R. Koide. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Pharmacology, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Christopher W. Fernandez
2. R. Koide
3. I. Brunner
4. M. L. McCormack
5. K. Peay
6. J. M. Talbot
7. S. Chapman
8. P. Kennedy

In Pharmacology

1. Christopher W. Fernandez
2. R. Koide
3. J. M. Talbot

In Plant Science

1. Christopher W. Fernandez
2. K. Peay
3. R. Koide
4. M. L. McCormack
5. J. Langley
6. Bernard Henrissat
7. Francis Martin
8. J. M. Talbot

Citations in the corpus

• Melanins in fungi: Types, localization and putative biological roles (2017, background): “Organic matter derived from Cenococcum geophilum, which is drought tolerant and abundant in water-stressed habitats, may represent as much as 50 % of organic C in soils [11].”
• How tree roots respond to drought (2015, background): “Recent studies suggest that the production of melanin (a class of complex dark polymers), also found in the fungal cell walls of C. geophilum , might be a key functional trait in water stress tolerance (Fernandez and Koide, 2013).”
• Functional guild classification predicts the enzymatic role of fungi in litter and soil biogeochemistry (2015, background): “This fungus synthesizes large amounts of intracellular melanin (Fernandez and Koide, 2013), which arise from the activity of various intracellular oxidoreductases, potentially including peroxidase (Bell and Wheeler, 1986; Butler and Day, 1998).”
• The decomposition of ectomycorrhizal fungal necromass (2016, background): “The production of melanin in fungi has been linked to the tolerance of various environmental stressors, including high temperature (Rosas and Casadevall, 1997), water stress (Rehnstrom and Free, 1996; Kogej et al., 2007; Fernandez and Koide, 2013; Kej zar et al., 2013), ultraviolet light (Wang and C”
• Initial melanin and nitrogen concentrations control the decomposition of ectomycorrhizal fungal litter (2014, background): “, 2008), water stress (Kogej et al., 2006; Fernandez and Koide, 2013), heavy metal stress (Gadd and de Rome, 1988) and antagonistic biotic interactions (Nosanchuk and Casadevall, 2003).”