Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi not only play a crucial role in acquiring nutrients for plants but also serve as a habitat for soil microbes. Recent studies observed that AM fungal hyphae are colonized by specific bacterial communities. However, so far it has not been explored whether fungal hyphae and mycorrhizal networks also harbor specific communities of protists, a key group of microbes in the soil microbiome. Here, we characterized protist communities in soil in a compartment with plant roots and on hyphae collected from hyphal compartments without plant roots. We detected specific protist communities on fungal hyphae. Fourteen protistan amplicon sequences variants (ASVs) were significantly associated with fungal hyphae, half of which belonged to the Cercozoa group. This research, for the first-time detected specific protist ASVs directly associated with abundant AM fungus hyphae, highlighting the complexity of the hyphal food web.
Source: Mycorrhiza
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,790
Awards: G1088636562, G14554683, G2145270357, Microbiome complexity and microbial keystone taxa as drivers of agro-ecosystem functioning, G5356793053, Harnessing the second genome of plants. Microbial imprinting for crop resilience (MiCRop), G5990569012, G69709960, G7057280914, Netherlands X-omics Initiative, G8105150848, G8690818240
OpenAlex ID: W4402362334