A comprehensive fungi-specific 18S rRNA gene sequence primer toolkit suited for diverse research issues and sequencing platforms

S Banos, G Lentendu, A Kopf, T Wubet, FO Glöckner… - BMC microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Background Several fungi-specific primers target the 18S rRNA gene sequence, one of the
prominent markers for fungal classification. The design of most primers goes back to the last …

Challenges of biomass utilization for bioenergy in a climate change scenario

EN Freitas, JCS Salgado, RC Alnoch, AG Contato… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The most recent intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC 2021)
has shown that the human influence on climate change has been unprecedented, predicting …

Global patterns in endemicity and vulnerability of soil fungi

L Tedersoo, V Mikryukov, A Zizka… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fungi are highly diverse organisms, which provide multiple ecosystem services. However,
compared with charismatic animals and plants, the distribution patterns and conservation …

Interactions of soil bacteria and fungi with plants during long-term grazing exclusion in semiarid grasslands

C Zhang, G Liu, Z Song, J Wang, L Guo - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial succession has been extensively investigated during the restoration of degraded
environments, but the interactions of microbes with plants and soils have not been well …

Effects of past and current drought on the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities

C Preece, E Verbruggen, L Liu, JT Weedon… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought is well known to have strong effects on the composition and activity of soil microbial
communities, and may be determined by drought history and drought duration, but the …

Response of soil fungal community composition and functions on the alteration of precipitation in the grassland of Loess Plateau

Q Huang, F Jiao, Y Huang, N Li, B Wang, H Gao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
A change in precipitation caused by climate change is an important factor that affects the
biodiversity and ecological function of arid and semi-arid regions, but its influence on the …

Fungal communities differentially respond to warming and drought in tropical grassland soil

TB de Oliveira, RC de Lucas, ASA Scarcella… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is predicted to cause more extreme events, such as heatwaves, and
different precipitation patterns. The effects of warming and short‐term drought on soil …

Climatic factors regulate the assembly processes of abundant and rare microbial communities in desert soil

Q Sun, HY Li, K Li, XQ Zhang, YB Shi… - Journal of Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Soil microorganisms, which include many rare taxa and a small number of abundant taxa,
have different contributions to the ecosystem functions and services. High throughput …

Microbial community response to a decade of simulated global changes depends on the plant community

SS Finks, C Weihe, S Kimball, SD Allison… - Elem Sci …, 2021 - online.ucpress.edu
Global changes such as increased drought and atmospheric nitrogen deposition perturb
both the microbial and plant communities that mediate terrestrial ecosystem functioning …

A foliar Epichloë endophyte and soil moisture modified belowground arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity associated with Achnatherum inebrians

R Zhong, C **a, Y Ju, X Zhang, T Duan, Z Nan, C Li - Plant and Soil, 2021 - Springer
Background and aims Fungal symbionts, present in above and in belowground tissues, such
as that of Epichloë endophytes and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, respectively, can …