Ectomycorrhizal fungi of exotic pine plantations in relation to native host trees in Iran: evidence of host range expansion by local symbionts to distantly related host taxa

0394281 - BÚ 2014 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Bahram, M. - Köljalg, U. - Kohout, Petr - Mirshahvaladi, S. - Tedersoo, L.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi of exotic pine plantations in relation to native host trees in Iran: evidence of host range expansion by local symbionts to distantly related host taxa.
Mycorrhiza. Roč. 23, č. 1 (2013), s. 11-19. ISSN 0940-6360. E-ISSN 1432-1890
Grant - others:European Commission(XE) ESF 7434; European Commission(XE) ESF 8235
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : ectomycorrhiza * pine * invasions
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 2.985, year: 2013

The combination of morphological and molecular identification approaches revealed that 84.6 % of species with more than one occurrence (at least once on pines) were shared with native trees and only 5.9 % were found exclusively on pine root tips. The community diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the pine plantations adjacent to native EcM trees was comparable to their adjacent native trees, but the isolated plantations hosted relatively a species-poor community. The great number of shared and possibly compatible symbiotic species between exotic Pinaceae and local Fagales (Fagaceae and Betulaceae) may reflect their evolutionary adaptations and/or ancestral compatibility with one another.
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