Archaeorhizomycetes: Unearthing an Ancient Class of Ubiquitous Soil Fungi

Anna Rosling; Filipa Cox; Karelyn Cruz-Martinez; Katarina Ihrmark; Gwen-Aelle Grelet; Bjorn D. Lindahl; Audrius Menkis; Timothy Y. James

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Archaeorhizomycetes: Unearthing an Ancient Class of Ubiquitous Soil Fungi

Anna Rosling, Filipa Cox, Karelyn Cruz-Martinez, Katarina Ihrmark, Gwen-Aelle Grelet, Bjorn D. Lindahl, Audrius Menkis, Timothy Y. James

Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Estimates suggest that only one-tenth of the true fungal diversity has been described. Among numerous fungal lineages known only from environmental DNA sequences, Soil Clone Group 1 is the most ubiquitous. These globally distributed fungi may dominate below-ground fungal communities, but their placement in the fungal tree of life has been uncertain. Here, we report cultures of this group and describe the class, Archaeorhizomycetes, phylogenetically placed within subphylum Taphrinomycotina in the Ascomycota. Archaeorhizomycetes comprises hundreds of cryptically reproducing filamentous species that do not form recognizable mycorrhizal structures and have saprotrophic potential, yet are omnipresent in roots and rhizosphere soil and show ecosystem and host root habitat specificity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	876-879
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	333
Issue number	6044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1206958
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2011

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