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Climate change effects fruiting of the prize matsutake mushroom in China

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Climate change affects various facets of life but there is little data on its effects on wild mushroom fruiting. Yunnan Province in China is a rich source of wild mushrooms and has experienced a temperature rise over recent decades. This has resulted in warmer temperatures but the impacts of these changes on mushroom production lack documentation. We collected data on the fruiting of the highly prized matsutake mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake) in West Yunnan, China over an 11 year period from 2000 to 2010. Fruiting phenology and productivity were compared against the driving meteorological variables using Projection to Latent Structure regression. The mushrooms appeared later in the season during the observation period, which is most likely explained by rising temperatures and reduced rain during May and June. High temperature and abundant rain in August resulted in good productivity. The climate response of matsutake production results from a sequence of processes that are possibly linked with regulatory signals and resource availability. To advance the knowledge of this complex system, a holistic research approach integrating biology, ecology, genetics, physiology, and phytochemistry is needed. Our results contribute to a general model of fungal ecology, which can be used to predict the responses of fungi to global climate change.

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Acknowledgements

This study was sponsored jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30800158), the 11th Five-Year China Key Science & Technology Project on Silviculture for Carbon Sequestration in Subtropics (Grant No: 2008BAD95B09) and the Ford Foundation (Grant No. 10850639). We are grateful to David Pilz and Edward Grumbine for critical comments and Greta M. Pennington Rana for English editing. We also thank the Global Research Network for Fungal Biology, the National Research Council of Thailand (grant NRCT/55201020007), Mae Fah Luang University (grant MFU/54 1 01 02 00 48) and King Saud University for support.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

    Xuefei Yang & Yongping Yang

  2. Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

    Xuefei Yang, Jianchu Xu & Yongping Yang

  3. World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

    Eike Luedeling

  4. Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, People’s Republic of China

    Guangli Chen & Dequn Zhou

  5. Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand

    Kevin D. Hyde

  6. College of Science, Botany and Microbiology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, 1145, Saudi Arabia

    Kevin D. Hyde

  7. Haitang Village, Baoshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

    Youji Yang

  8. Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, World Agroforestry Centre, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

    Jianchu Xu

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Yang, X., Luedeling, E., Chen, G. et al. Climate change effects fruiting of the prize matsutake mushroom in China. Fungal Diversity 56, 189–198 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-012-0163-z

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