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Growth and uptake of caesium, rubidium, and potassium by ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi grown on either ammonium or nitrate as the N source

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After the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011, high activities of radiocaesium have been reported in wild mushrooms in Japan. Fungi play an important role in the dynamics of radiocaesium in forest ecosystems. We examined the contents of caesium (Cs), rubidium (Rb), and potassium (K) in the mycelium of 15 isolates of ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi and nine isolates of saprotrophic (SA) fungi in a synthetic medium with either ammonium chloride (NH4Cl) or sodium nitrate (NaNO3), supplemented with 1 ppm caesium chloride and rubidium chloride. The mycelia were harvested after 8 weeks of incubation, and the contents of Cs, Rb, and K were measured by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The dry weight of the mycelium in the medium with NH4 was significantly higher than that with NO3, although some EM species, Hebeloma, Astraeus, Scleroderma, and Pisolithus, grew well in the medium with NO3. Among SA species, Crucibulum and Cyathus grew in the medium with NO3. The uptakes of Cs, Rb, and K by Suillus, Pisolithus, and Rhizopogon were higher than that in other EM and SA species when they grew on the medium with NH4, while the uptakes of these elements by Astraeus and Scleroderma were higher than those by other species grown on the medium with NO3. The content of Rb was positively correlated with Cs (r = 0.85, p < 0.001) and K (r = 0.51, p < 0.001). The accumulation of Cs, Rb, and K was differently affected by the N source and fungal species.

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This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI (grant numbers 24658149 and 26292091) and by a research grant of the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (number 201501).

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  1. College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, Japan

    Sumika Ogo & Keiko Yamaji

  2. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8687, Japan

    Takashi Yamanaka, Keiko Akama, Yuko Ota, Ko Tahara, Junko Nagakura & Akihiko Kinoshita

  3. College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 252-0880, Japan

    Yuko Ota

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Ogo, S., Yamanaka, T., Akama, K. et al. Growth and uptake of caesium, rubidium, and potassium by ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi grown on either ammonium or nitrate as the N source. Mycol Progress 16, 801–809 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-017-1317-x

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