Plant-fungal interactions in hybrid zones: Ectomycorrhizal communities of willows (Salix) in an alpine glacier forefield
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Ectomycorrhizal (EcM) fungi are essential for the establishment of woody perennial plants in the European Alps. From continental to local scales, environmental conditions and plant host characteristics can predict EcM community structure and composition. However, it is unclear whether EcM communities of congeneric host species and their hybrids are differentially structured at local scales. We aimed to i) characterize EcM communities of Salix helvetica, Salix purpurea and their hybrids and ii) elucidate the abiotic and biotic factors affecting EcM communities in hybrid zones. We analysed the EcM communities associated with willows in a glacier valley by combining molecular identification of fungi from individual ectomycorrhizas and from soil. We detected diverse EcM fungi forming non-modular and unnested networks, but we did not find significant differences in the overall EcM fungal community richness or composition among parental species and hybrids. Nevertheless, individual fungi differed regarding host preference. Our results demonstrate that in a sub-alpine hybrid zone with heterogeneous geomorphology, host genotype was not a strong predictor of overall EcM fungal community, but it influenced the occurrence of particular fungi.
Date Issued
2020-06-01
Date Acceptance
2020-02-25
Citation
Fungal Ecology, 2020, 45, pp.1-13
ISSN
1754-5048
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Journal / Book Title
Fungal Ecology
Volume
45
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd and British Mycological Society. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Identifier
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Grant Number
NE/K006339/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Ecology
Mycology
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Ectomycorrhizal
Fungi
Host specificity
Sub-alpine
Hybrids
Salix helvetica
Salix purpurea
Network analysis
Sanger sequencing
High throughput sequencing
HOST PREFERENCE
CENOCOCCUM-GEOPHILUM
ROOT-TIP
DIVERSITY
SOIL
SPECIFICITY
PATTERNS
PRIMERS
MODELS
DNA
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 100936
Date Publish Online
2020-04-10