Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health

TY - JOUR

T1 - Fungal Biodiversity and Their Role in Soil Health

AU - Frąc, Magdalena

AU - Hannula, Silja E.

AU - Bełka, Marta

AU - Jędryczka, Małgorzata

N1 - 6522, TE; Data archiving: no data (review)

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Soil health, and the closely related terms of soil quality and fertility, is considered as one of the most important characteristics of soil ecosystems. The integrated approach to soil health assumes that soil is a living system and soil health results from the interaction between different processes and properties, with a strong effect on the activity of soil microbiota. All soils can be described using physical, chemical and biological properties, but adaptation to environmental changes, driven by the processes of natural selection, are unique to the latter one. This mini review focuses on fungal biodiversity and its role in the health of managed soils as well as on the current methods used in soil mycobiome identification and utilization next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches. The authors separately focus on agriculture and horticulture as well as grassland and forest ecosystems. Moreover, this mini review describes the effect of land-use on the biodiversity and succession of fungi. In conclusion, the authors recommend a shift from cataloging fungal species in different soil ecosystems towards a more global analysis based on functions and interactions between organisms.

AB - Soil health, and the closely related terms of soil quality and fertility, is considered as one of the most important characteristics of soil ecosystems. The integrated approach to soil health assumes that soil is a living system and soil health results from the interaction between different processes and properties, with a strong effect on the activity of soil microbiota. All soils can be described using physical, chemical and biological properties, but adaptation to environmental changes, driven by the processes of natural selection, are unique to the latter one. This mini review focuses on fungal biodiversity and its role in the health of managed soils as well as on the current methods used in soil mycobiome identification and utilization next generation sequencing (NGS) approaches. The authors separately focus on agriculture and horticulture as well as grassland and forest ecosystems. Moreover, this mini review describes the effect of land-use on the biodiversity and succession of fungi. In conclusion, the authors recommend a shift from cataloging fungal species in different soil ecosystems towards a more global analysis based on functions and interactions between organisms.

KW - international

U2 - 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00707

DO - 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00707

M3 - Article

SN - 1664-302X

VL - 9

SP - 707

JO - Frontiers in Microbiology

JF - Frontiers in Microbiology

M1 - 707

ER -