Hiding in a crowd-does diversity facilitate persistence of a low-quality fungal partner in the mycorrhizal symbiosis?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13199-012-0197-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13199-012-0197-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13199-012-0197-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s13199-012-0197-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hiding in a crowd-does diversity facilitate persistence of a low-quality fungal partner in the mycorrhizal symbiosis?

Original language description

relationship. We tested the hypothesis that increasing either fungal or host biodiversity allows an AM fungus to persist on a host where it shows little benefit. We found that growing such a fungus (an isolate of Glomus custos associating with Plantago laceolata) in combination with certain fungi improved its success as measured by mtLSU DNA abundance. Increasing plant species richness facilitated the spread of this fungus as measured by spore density and fungal colonization; the role of host species richness was not as clear when looking at measures of root abundance. These results indicate that diversity in the AM symbiosis, both plant and fungal, can promote the persistence of low-quality fungi. By existing within a complex mycelial network fungal strains that show little growth benefit to their hosts have a better chance of persisting on that same host. This has the potential to promote selection for heterogeneous AM fungal communities on a small spatial scale

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EE - Microbiology, virology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Symbiosis

ISSN

0334-5114

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

IL - THE STATE OF ISRAEL

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

47-56

UT code for WoS article

000316387900004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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