The effect of environmental contamination on the community structure and fructification of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Issue 1 (11th August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sun, Qibiao; Liu, Yaping; Yuan, Huatao; Lian, Bin
• Is Part Of: MicrobiologyOpen. Volume 6:Issue 1(2017:Feb.)
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• Publication Date: 2016-08-11
• Subjects: Cedrus deodara -- community structure -- ectomycorrhizal fungi -- environmental contamination -- fruiting body; Microbiology -- Periodicals; 579
• DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.396
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2045-8827

Abstract

Abstract: Ectomycorrhizal fungi are an essential component of forest ecosystems, most of which can form edible and medical fruiting bodies. Although many studies have focused on the fructification of ectomycorrhizal fungi in phenology, the impact of environmental contamination, especially living garbage, on the formation of fruiting body is still unknown. A field investigation, combined with a high‐throughput sequencing method, was used to study the effect of living garbage pollution on the fructification and hypogeous community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi symbiosing with cedar ( Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don). The results showed that garbage significantly altered soil abiotic and biotic properties, increasing soil urease activity, decreasing the soil exchangeable metal content and phosphatase activity, and ultimately inhibiting the formation of fruiting bodies. The pollution of garbage also changed the community structure of hypogeous ectomycorrhizal fungi where ectomycorrhizal ascomycetes dominated. In unpolluted sites, the relative abundance of ectomycorrhizal ascomycetes and basidiomycetes were almost equal. Although no fruiting bodies were observed in that soil polluted by living garbage, the sequencing result showed that various ectomycorrhizal fungi were present underground, suggesting that these taxonomic fungi had the potential to cope with adverse conditions. This study not only provided a deeper understanding of the relationship between ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and prevailing environmental conditions, but provided a new pathway for the excavation and utilization of the resource of antistress ectomycorrhizal fungi. Abstract : This study investigated the ectomycorrhizal fungal fruiting bodies and community composition between unpolluted and polluted sites by living garbage. This study makes us have a better understanding to the fruiting body's formation condition required and the relationships between ectomycorrhizal fungal community structure and environmental conditions, moreover, provide a new thought to excavate and utilize the resource of antistress ectomycorrhizal fungi.