Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a novel method of assessing biodiversity
wherein samples are taken from the environment via water, sediment or air from which DNA …

The diversity of microbes associated with plant roots is enormous, in the order of tens of
thousands of species. This complex plant-associated microbial community, also referred to …

Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

Six DNA regions were evaluated as potential DNA barcodes for Fungi, the second largest
kingdom of eukaryotic life, by a multinational, multilaboratory consortium. The region of the …

The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

Almost all land plants form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi. These below‐
ground fungi play a key role in terrestrial ecosystems as they regulate nutrient and carbon …

Because many animal species are undescribed, and because the identification of known
species is often difficult, interim taxonomic nomenclature has often been used in biodiversity …

Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment (pH 4.0–8.3), in which variation in
factors other than pH have been minimized, were used to investigate the direct influence of …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are typically examined for taxonomic affiliation through
sequence similarity searches involving the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the …

DNA metabarcoding is promising for cost-effective biodiversity monitoring, but reliable
diversity estimates are difficult to achieve and validate. Here we present and validate a …