Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

Both abundant and rare fungi colonizing Fagus sylvatica ectomycorrhizal root-tips shape associated bacterial communities

  • Marlies Dietrich,
  • Alicia Montesinos-Navarro,
  • Raphael Gabriel,
  • Florian Strasser,
  • Dimitri V. Meier,
  • Werner Mayerhofer,
  • Stefan Gorka,
  • Julia Wiesenbauer,
  • Victoria Martin,
  • Marieluise Weidinger,
  • Andreas Richter,
  • Christina Kaiser,
  • Dagmar Woebken

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04178-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The bacterial/archaeal and fungal communities inhabiting beech tree root-tips are examined by marker gene sequencing followed by ecological network analysis, highlighting complex interactions in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis.