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Open AccessBoth plant genotype and herbivory shape aspen endophyte communities
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Mycobiomes of sympatric Amorphophallus albispathus (Araceae) and Camellia sinensis (Theaceae) – a case study reveals clear tissue preferences and differences in diversity and composition
Multiple biotic and abiotic parameters influence the dynamics of individual fungal species and entire communities. Major drivers for tropical plant endophytes are undoubtedly seasonality, local habitat conditi...
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Leaf-inhabiting endophytic yeasts are abundant but unevenly distributed in three Ficus species from botanical garden greenhouses in Germany
Yeasts of both Ascomycota and Basidiomycota occur in various ecological zones of many geographic regions and climatic conditions, but environmental yeast research has often been conducted in either extreme hab...
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Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi
Plant pathogenic fungi are a large and diverse assemblage of eukaryotes with substantial impacts on natural ecosystems and human endeavours. These taxa often have complex and poorly understood life cycles, lac...
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Leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) co-occur in leaf litter but are rare on decaying wood of the same host
Many microfungi are able to live in living plant tissues. In contrast to plant pathogens and parasites the so-called endophytic fungi do not cause obvious disease symptoms in their hosts. Nevertheless, they co...
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of endophyte diversity in the canopy of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
Leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi of Fraxinus excelsior growing in a floodplain forest were isolated during 2008 to investigate vertical community structure, species richness and seasonal variation. The analysis o...
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Endophytic fungi from Peruvian highland and lowland habitats form distinctive and host plant-specific assemblages
Biodiversity and biogeography of leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi have not been resolved yet. This is because host specificity, life cycles and species concepts, in this heterogeneous ecological guild of plant...
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3,000 species and no end – species richness and community pattern of woodland macrofungi in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
In addition to newly generated and continuously growing datasets in mycological research, existing compilations are of high value to assess the fungi of a whole region. In the present study, a private database...
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Xerotolerant foliar endophytic fungi of Populus euphratica from the Tarim River basin, Central China are conspecific to endophytic ITS phylotypes of Populus tremula from temperate Europe
Fungal research on non-lichenized taxa in xeric and other unusual habitats for fungi is comparatively scarce but constantly reveal an enormous ecological and functional adaptiveness of these organisms to extre...
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Diversity of Fungal Endophytes in Temperate Forest Trees
Approximately 10% of around 1,000 temperate tree species have so far been investigated for the occurrence of fungal endophytes, world-wide. The observed diversity, mostly measured as species richness of cultiv...
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Current state and perspectives of fungal DNA barcoding and rapid identification procedures
Fungal research is experiencing a new wave of methodological improvements that most probably will boost mycology as profoundly as molecular phylogeny has done during the last 15 years. Especially the next gene...
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Species richness and distribution patterns of leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi in a temperate forest canopy
In 2005, researchers at the Leipzig Canopy Crane Research Facility collected living leaves of four temperate tree species at heights of between 15 and 33 m above the ground. Following surface sterilisation of...
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Species richness and substrate specificity of lignicolous fungi in the canopy of a temperate, mixed deciduous forest
In the more than twenty years in which long-term canopy research has been conducted, mycology has been largely disregarded. Our studies using a construction crane to gain access to the canopy of a forest in Le...
