Ectomycorrhizal fungi - potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs.

By Björn D. Lindahl, A. Tunlid. New Phytologist, 2015

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Subfields: Insect Science, Plant Science, Soil Science

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In Insect Science

1. Petr Baldrian
2. P. Kennedy
3. P. Högberg
4. Surono
5. K. Narisawa
6. K. Peay
7. J. M. Talbot
8. T. Pennanen

In Plant Science

1. Petr Baldrian
2. K. Peay
3. P. Kennedy
4. P. Högberg
5. T. Näsholm
6. H. Wallander
7. Joe Wan
8. A. Jarosz-Wilkołazka

In Soil Science

1. T. Näsholm
2. M. Högberg
3. P. Högberg
4. Oskar Franklin
5. K. Peay
6. Surono
7. Bernard Henrissat
8. A. Kohler

Citations in the corpus

• The dark septate endophytic fungus Phialocephala fortinii is a potential decomposer of soil organic compounds and a promoter of Asparagus officinalis growth (2017, positive): “Therefore, like ectomycorrhizal and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi, P. fortinii may have the ability to retrieve N and P fromplant litter, although research in this area remains limited (Caldwell et al., 1996; Jumpponen and Trappe, 1998; Lindahl and Tunlid, 2015).”
• Reviews and syntheses: Biological weathering and its consequences at different spatial levels – from nanoscale to global scale (2020, background): “The fungi forming these two types of symbiosis vary in their enzymatic competence, but in general they have a more highly developed capacity to both scavenge and mine N and P than arbuscular mycorrhiza, releasing N and P from organic forms (in the case of ectomycorrhizal fungi) by different combinat”
• Melanization of mycorrhizal fungal necromass structures microbial decomposer communities (2018, background): “There is growing consensus that some ectomycorrhizal fungi are proficient degraders of recalcitrant soil organic matter, due to their ability to mine energetically unfavourable substrates for bound organic nitrogen (Kuyper, 2016; Lindahl & Tunlid, 2015).”
• Functional guild classification predicts the enzymatic role of fungi in litter and soil biogeochemistry (2015, background): “Determining the contribution of ectomycorrhizal enzyme production to total soil enzyme activity is important to predicting soil biogeochemistry on a landscape scale, because when potential decomposer activities of mycorrhizal fungi are incorporated into C cycle models, it significantly changes predi”
• Tamm Review: On the nature of the nitrogen limitation to plant growth in Fennoscandian boreal forests (2017, background): “Another classic problem is the theoretical and methodological separation of the functions of mycorrhizal fungi from those of other soil microbes (Högberg, 2004; Lindahl and Tunlid, 2015).”
• Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics. (2016, background): “2015), they likely still contribute to organic matter decomposition while mining for organic N (Bödeker et al. 2009; Lindahl and Tunlid 2015).”
• The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry (2019, background): “By contrast, the larger networks of EM fungi can degrade and acquire organic forms of nitrogen directly (49, 50) and are predicted to dominate “slow” nitrogencycling ecosystems with low levels of inorganic nutrients (47, 48).”
• Lignin degradation: microorganisms, enzymes involved, genomes analysis and evolution (2017, background): “Their degradation mechanism of lignocellulose is similar that of brown rot type of decay (e.g. Paxillus), while others use a white rot type mechanism (e.g. Cortinarius) (Kohler et al. 2015; Lindahl and Tunlid 2015).”
• Habitat models of wood-inhabiting fungi along a decay gradient of Norway spruce logs (2015, background): “The extent to which mycorrhizal fungi are obligate symbionts or facultative saprotrophs is currently under debate (Talbot et al., 2008; Baldrian, 2009; Lindahl and Tunlid, 2014).”