Fungal Metagenome of Chernevaya Taiga Soils: Taxonomic Composition, Differential Abundance and Factors Related to Plant Gigantism

• Published in: Journal of Fungi
• Main Authors: Mikhail Rayko, Sophie Sokornova, Alla Lapidus
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: fungi; diversity; community composition; plant gigantism; arbuscular mycorrhiza; Chernevaya taiga; soil properties; FUNGuild; Bray; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7110908

The Chernevaya taiga of Western Siberia is a unique and complex ecosystem, distinguished by the unusually large sizes of herbaceous plants, the reasons for which are poorly understood. Here, we explored the fungal diversity of the Chernevaya taiga soils in the Tomsk regions of Western Siberia in com...