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Norwegian salmon aquaculture production has grown rapidly since the 1970s. Accompanying the growing production have been a number of disease challenges of which at least two of the outbreaks threatened the industry's existence. The challenges caused by disease may appear to become more serious as the number of diseases being diagnosed and measures taken by the companies and regulators to manage disease increase. We will review...
Comparative genomics of pyrophilous fungi reveals a link between fire events and developmental genesNARA Subscribed
Summary Forest fires generate a large amount of carbon that remains resident on the site as dead and partially ‘pyrolysed’ (i.e. burnt) material that has long residency times and constitutes a significant pool in fire‐prone ecosystems. In addition, fire‐induced hydrophobic soil layers, caused by condensation of pyrolysed waxes and lipids, increase post‐fire erosion and can lead to long‐term productivity losses. A small set of...
Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity predicted to substantially decline due to climate changes in North American Pinaceae forestsNARA Subscribed
Aim Ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECMF) are partners in a globally distributed tree symbiosis implicated in most major ecosystem functions. However, resilience of ECMF to future climates is uncertain. We forecast these changes over the extent of North American Pinaceae forests. Location About 68 sites from North American Pinaceae forests ranging from Florida to Ontario in the east and southern California to Alaska in the west. Taxon...
Using machine learning to advance synthesis and use of conservation and environmental evidenceNARA Subscribed
Article impact statement : Machine learning optimizes processes of systematic evidence synthesis and improves its utility for evidence‐based conservation.
Summary Ectomycorrhizal ( EM ) fungi form symbiotic associations with plant roots that regulate nutrient exchange between forest plants and soil. Environmental metagenomics approaches that employ next‐generation sequencing show great promise for studying EM symbioses; however, metatranscriptomic studies have been constrained by the inherent difficulties associated with isolation and sequencing of RNA from mycorrhizae. Here we...
The nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer ( ITS ) region is the formal fungal barcode and in most cases the marker of choice for the exploration of fungal diversity in environmental samples. Two problems are particularly acute in the pursuit of satisfactory taxonomic assignment of newly generated ITS sequences: (i) the lack of an inclusive, reliable public reference data set and (ii) the lack of means to refer to funga...
Mycoheterotrophic interactions are not limited to a narrow phylogenetic range of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungiNARA Subscribed
The majority of achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic plant species associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Previous studies have shown that some species are highly specialized towards narrow lineages of AMF and have suggested that only particular lineages of these fungi are targeted by mycoheterotrophic plants. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed all available partial SSU sequences of AMF associated with mycoheterotro...
Serpentine and non‐serpentine ecotypes of Collinsia sparsiflora associate with distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblagesNARA Subscribed
Although plant adaptation to serpentine soils has been studied for several decades, the mechanisms of plant adaptation to edaphic extremes are still poorly understood. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are common root symbionts that can increase the plant hosts’ establishment and growth in stressful environments. However, little is known about the role plant–AMF interactions play in plant adaptation to serpentine. As a first...