Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em>
The plant- and soil-associated microbial communities are critical to plant health and their resilience to stressors, such as drought, pathogens, and pest outbreaks. A better understanding of the structure of microbial communities and how they are affected by different environmental factors is needed...
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| author | Diana Marčiulynienė Adas Marčiulynas Valeriia Mishcherikova Jūratė Lynikienė Artūras Gedminas Iva Franic Audrius Menkis |
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| description | The plant- and soil-associated microbial communities are critical to plant health and their resilience to stressors, such as drought, pathogens, and pest outbreaks. A better understanding of the structure of microbial communities and how they are affected by different environmental factors is needed to predict and manage ecosystem responses to climate change. In this study, we carried out a country-wide analysis of fungal communities associated with <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> growing under different environmental conditions. Needle, shoot, root, mineral, and organic soil samples were collected at 30 sites. By interconnecting the high-throughput sequencing data, environmental variables, and soil chemical properties, we were able to identify key factors that drive the diversity and composition of fungal communities associated with <i>P. sylvestris</i>. The fungal species richness and community composition were also found to be highly dependent on the site and the substrate they colonize. The results demonstrated that different functional tissues and the rhizosphere soil of <i>P. sylvestris</i> are associated with diverse fungal communities, which are driven by a combination of climatic (temperature and precipitation) and edaphic factors (soil pH), and stand characteristics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0d08d025fcc4502a069733f5ac3db952023-11-24T00:48:07ZengMDPI AGJournal of Fungi2309-608X2022-10-01810111210.3390/jof8101112Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em>Diana Marčiulynienė0Adas Marčiulynas1Valeriia Mishcherikova2Jūratė Lynikienė3Artūras Gedminas4Iva Franic5Audrius Menkis6Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, LithuaniaInstitute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, LithuaniaInstitute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, LithuaniaInstitute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, LithuaniaInstitute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Liepų Str. 1, Girionys, 53101 Kaunas District, LithuaniaDepartment of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 190, SE-23422 Lomma, SwedenDepartment of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7026, SE-75007 Uppsala, SwedenThe plant- and soil-associated microbial communities are critical to plant health and their resilience to stressors, such as drought, pathogens, and pest outbreaks. A better understanding of the structure of microbial communities and how they are affected by different environmental factors is needed to predict and manage ecosystem responses to climate change. In this study, we carried out a country-wide analysis of fungal communities associated with <i>Pinus sylvestris</i> growing under different environmental conditions. Needle, shoot, root, mineral, and organic soil samples were collected at 30 sites. By interconnecting the high-throughput sequencing data, environmental variables, and soil chemical properties, we were able to identify key factors that drive the diversity and composition of fungal communities associated with <i>P. sylvestris</i>. The fungal species richness and community composition were also found to be highly dependent on the site and the substrate they colonize. The results demonstrated that different functional tissues and the rhizosphere soil of <i>P. sylvestris</i> are associated with diverse fungal communities, which are driven by a combination of climatic (temperature and precipitation) and edaphic factors (soil pH), and stand characteristics.https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/8/10/1112Scots pinefungal communityenvironmental conditionsneedlesshootsroots |
| spellingShingle | Diana Marčiulynienė Adas Marčiulynas Valeriia Mishcherikova Jūratė Lynikienė Artūras Gedminas Iva Franic Audrius Menkis Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> Journal of Fungi Scots pine fungal community environmental conditions needles shoots roots |
| title | Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> |
| title_full | Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> |
| title_fullStr | Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> |
| title_full_unstemmed | Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> |
| title_short | Principal Drivers of Fungal Communities Associated with Needles, Shoots, Roots and Adjacent Soil of <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> |
| title_sort | principal drivers of fungal communities associated with needles shoots roots and adjacent soil of em pinus sylvestris em |
| topic | Scots pine fungal community environmental conditions needles shoots roots |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/8/10/1112 |
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