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Diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in Pinus thunbergii coastal forests bordering the Yellow Sea of China

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Ectomycorrhizas play a fundamental role in the function of forest ecosystems, being essential for plant nutrition absorption and soil quality. Many afforestation and reforestation programmes have begun to recover and maintain coastal forests in China, using pine species including Pinus thunbergii. We investigated the ectomycorrhizal colonization status of P. thunbergii in coastal pine forests of the Yellow Sea of China. We identified a total of 53 ectomycorrhizal fungal species in 74 soil samples collected from three sites and found that Thelephoraceae (10 spp.) and Russulaceae (8 spp.) were the most species-rich ectomycorrhizal fungal lineages. Russula sp. 1 was the most abundant species, accounting for 15.3% of the total ectomycorrhizal tips identified. Most of the remaining species were rare. At this small scale, host identity had no significant effect on the ectomycorrhizal fungal community composition (A = 0.036, P = 0.258), but sampling sites did (A = 0.135, P = 0.041). In addition, Na+ and K+ content and soil pH had significant effects on the ectomycorrhizal fungal community. The ectomycorrhizal fungal community associated with different host plants will become an important new direction for research, as ectomycorrhiza may have the potential to improve host capacity to establish in salt-stressed environments. This will provide a theoretical basis and technical support for saline soil reforestation and rehabilitation using pine species with compatible, native ectomycorrhizal fungi in Yellow Sea coastal areas.

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This study was funded in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31800525); the Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK20170469); the Forestry Science and Technology Innovation and Promotion Project of Jiangsu province (LYKJ(2018)37); the earmarked fund for Jiangsu Agricultural Industry Technology System [2019]228; and the special project of science and technology in North Jiangsu (SZ-YC2018060).

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  2. Jiangsu Coastal Area Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Yancheng, 224002, Jiangsu, China

    Jincheng Xing, Xiaomei Zhu, Baoquan Zhao, Chong Liu, Jing Dong, Lizhou Hong & Zhugui Wen

  3. College of Food and Biological Engineering/Institute of Food Science and Engineering Technology, Hezhou University, Hezhou, 542899, China

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Zhang, X., Xing, J., Zhu, X. et al. Diversity and community structure of ectomycorrhizal fungi in Pinus thunbergii coastal forests bordering the Yellow Sea of China. Braz J Microbiol 52, 801–809 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42770-021-00486-3

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