Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1705-1719

  Shah, Firoz ^a   Nicolás, César ^a   Bentzer, Johan ^a   Ellström, Magnus ^a   Smits, Mark ^b   Rineau, Francois ^b   Canbäck, Björn ^a   Floudas, Dimitrios ^a,c   Carleer, Robert ^b   Lackner, Gerald ^d   Braesel, Jana ^d   Hoffmeister, Dirk ^d   Henrissat, Bernard ^e,f   Ahrén, Dag ^a   Johansson, Tomas ^a   Hibbett, David S ^c   Martin, Francis ^g   Persson, Per ^a,h   Tunlid, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Ectomycorrhizal fungi; Evolution; Soil organic matter; Spectroscopy; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANCESTRY; CELLULOSE; DECOMPOSITION; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GLUCOSE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORGANIC NITROGEN; OXIDATION; PROTEIN; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; LACCASE; LIGNIN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL;

CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCORRHIZA; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SECRETION (PROCESS); SOIL;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; LACCASE; LIGNIN; MYCORRHIZAE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SOIL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84949009133     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13722     Document Type: Article

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