A Critical Review: Unearthing the Hidden Players—The Role of Extremophilic Fungi in Forest Ecosystems DOI Open Access

Muhammad Talal,

Xiaoming Chen,

Irfana Iqbal

и другие.

Forests, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(5), С. 855 - 855

Опубликована: Май 20, 2025

Often thought of as a mesic paradise, forest ecosystems are mosaic microhabitats with temporal oscillations that cause significant environmental stresses, providing habitats for extremophilic and extremotolerant fungi. Adapted to survive thrive under conditions lethal most mesophiles (e.g., extreme temperatures, pH, water potential, radiation, salinity, nutrient scarcity, pollutants), these species increasingly recognized vital yet underappreciated elements biodiversity function. This review examines the current understanding roles fungi in forests, scrutinizing their presence critical eye. Particularly severe conditions, play crucial role ecosystems, they significantly enhance decomposition cycling, foster mutualistic interactions plants increase stress resilience. helps maintain ecosystem stability. We examine definition “extreme” within settings, survey known diversity distribution across various niches (cold climates, fire-affected areas, acidic soils, canopy surfaces, polluted sites), delve into possible ecological functions, including recalcitrant matter, cycling stress, (pathogenesis, endophytism, perhaps mycorrhizae), bioremediation, contributions soil formation. However, stresses methodological difficulties, information gaps, field-based natural biases. recommend overcoming cultural constraints, enhancing functional annotation “omics” data, planning investigations clarify specific activities cryptic creatures matrix further advance field. Here, we demonstrate moving beyond simple identification deeper function will enable us more fully appreciate value particularly relation disturbances climate change.

Язык: Английский

Diversity, Composition, and Ecological Function of Endophytic Fungal Communities Associated with Erigeron breviscapus in China DOI Creative Commons
Yi Zhao, Hui Wu, Fang Wang

и другие.

Microorganisms, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(5), С. 1080 - 1080

Опубликована: Май 6, 2025

Endophytic fungi (EF) play crucial roles in accelerating the accumulation of medicinal components and regulating survival reproduction plants. Erigeron breviscapus is a well-known traditional Chinese plant with effective therapeutic effects wide application, but little known about diversity, community structure, ecological EF this plant. Here, communities associated different tissues E. at two seasons were studied by high-throughput sequencing methods. Furthermore, FUNGuild was performed to predict functions fungi. Didymella found be most dominant genus across all four tissues, followed Plectosphaerella, Filobasidium, Cystofilobasidium, Cladosporium. Notably, unique genera biomarkers different. Interestingly, it that roots had highest fungal richness diversity summer. Moreover, both PCoA plots PERMANOVA analyses indicated tissue season main factors contributing differences breviscapus. prediction revealed pathotroph–saprotroph undefined taxa accounted for high proportion We also some valuable endophytes encouraged deeper investigation. These findings provide theoretical reference further development utilization resources

Язык: Английский

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Microsclerotia of dark septate endophytic fungi from Paleogene and Neogene of Poland: fossil record and palaeoenvironmental significance of root fungal endophytes DOI Creative Commons
Grzegorz Worobiec, Elżbieta Worobiec, Marek Widera

и другие.

Fungal Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 101594 - 101594

Опубликована: Май 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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A Critical Review: Unearthing the Hidden Players—The Role of Extremophilic Fungi in Forest Ecosystems DOI Open Access

Muhammad Talal,

Xiaoming Chen,

Irfana Iqbal

и другие.

Forests, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(5), С. 855 - 855

Опубликована: Май 20, 2025

Often thought of as a mesic paradise, forest ecosystems are mosaic microhabitats with temporal oscillations that cause significant environmental stresses, providing habitats for extremophilic and extremotolerant fungi. Adapted to survive thrive under conditions lethal most mesophiles (e.g., extreme temperatures, pH, water potential, radiation, salinity, nutrient scarcity, pollutants), these species increasingly recognized vital yet underappreciated elements biodiversity function. This review examines the current understanding roles fungi in forests, scrutinizing their presence critical eye. Particularly severe conditions, play crucial role ecosystems, they significantly enhance decomposition cycling, foster mutualistic interactions plants increase stress resilience. helps maintain ecosystem stability. We examine definition “extreme” within settings, survey known diversity distribution across various niches (cold climates, fire-affected areas, acidic soils, canopy surfaces, polluted sites), delve into possible ecological functions, including recalcitrant matter, cycling stress, (pathogenesis, endophytism, perhaps mycorrhizae), bioremediation, contributions soil formation. However, stresses methodological difficulties, information gaps, field-based natural biases. recommend overcoming cultural constraints, enhancing functional annotation “omics” data, planning investigations clarify specific activities cryptic creatures matrix further advance field. Here, we demonstrate moving beyond simple identification deeper function will enable us more fully appreciate value particularly relation disturbances climate change.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

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