Ectomycorrhizal, vesicular-arbuscular and dark septate fungal colonization of bishop pine (Pinus muricata) seedlings in the first 5 months of growth after wildfire |
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Authors: | T R Horton Efren Cázares Thomas D Bruns |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, US;(2) Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA, US |
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Abstract: | We followed the colonization frequency of ectomycorrhizal (EM), vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM), and dark septate
(DS) fungi in 1- to 5-month-old bishop pine seedlings reestablishing after a wildfire. Seedlings were collected on a monthly
basis at either a VAM-dominated chaparral scrub site or an EM-dominated forest site, both of which were burned. In both vegetation
types, fully developed EM were observed from the third month after germination. EM fungi observed on the seedlings from the
scrub site were limited to Rhizopogon subcaerulescens, R. ochraceorubens and Suillus pungens. Seedlings from the forest were colonized by a greater variety of EM fungi including Amanita spp., Russula brevipes and a member of the Cantharellaceae. VAM structures (vesicles, arbuscules or hyphal coils) were observed in the seedling
root systems beginning 1 month after germination at the scrub site and 3 months after germination at the forest site. Seedlings
from the scrub site consistently had more frequent VAM fungal colonization than those from the forest site through the fifth
month after germination. DS fungi were observed in most seedlings from both the scrub and forest sites beginning in the first
month post-germination. We propose that these fungi survived as a resident inoculum in the soils and did not disperse into
the sites after the fire.
Accepted: 14 February 1998 |
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Keywords: | Pinus muricata Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae Ectomycorrhizae Dark septate fungi Fire PCR |
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