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J Fungi (Basel)
August 2025
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity and Innovative Utilization, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
This study systematically documented macrofungal diversity in Beijing, China (field surveys conducted from 2020 to 2024) using line-transect and random sampling. A total of 1056 species were identified, spanning 2 phyla, 7 classes, 25 orders, 109 families, and 286 genera. The inventory includes 12 new species, 456 new records for Beijing, 79 new records for China, and comprises 116 edible, 56 edible-medicinal, 123 medicinal, and 58 poisonous species.
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August 2025
College of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China.
Terrestrial plants exhibit immense variation in their form and function among species. Coordination between resource acquisition by roots and reproduction through seeds could promote the fitness of plant populations. How root and seed traits covary has remained unclear until our analysis of the largest-ever compiled joint global dataset of root traits and seed mass.
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October 2025
Université de Lorraine, Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, UMR Interactions Arbres/Microorganismes, Centre INRAE Grand Est-Nancy, 54280, Champenoux, France.
Forest trees rely on ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi for acquiring scarce resources such as water and nutrients. However, the molecular mechanisms governing ECM traits remain inadequately understood, particularly the role of intraspecific fungal variation in root-tip colonisation and trophic interactions. This study examined six ECM traits using Pisolithus microcarpus, an ECM fungus capable of forming ECM rootlets in poplar.
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July 2025
Irrigation NORCO Inc., Québec, QC, Canada.
The ecological roles of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) are diverse, providing essential nutrients to host plants, tolerance to stress, and regulation of metabolic pathways, greatly involved in soil C dynamics, unlocking minerals and promoting reactive Fe minerals. Although spores dispersal modes are still not clearly understood, a strong positive relationship exists between intra-and extraradical mycelium at the ecosystem level. AMF are essential in ecosystem restoration by improving soil attributes, above and belowground biodiversity, seedlings survival, growth, and establishment on stressed soils, driving plant succession and preventing plant invasion.
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July 2025
Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), Dover, DE, USA.
Environmental protection strategies often rely on aboveground biodiversity indicators for prioritising conservation efforts. However, substantial biodiversity exists belowground, and it remains unclear whether aboveground diversity hotspots are indicative of high soil biodiversity. Using geospatial layers of vascular plant, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and ectomycorrhizal fungi alpha diversity, we map plant-fungal diversity associations across different scales and evaluate evidence for potential correlation drivers.
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