Niloufar Hagh‐Doust
A5090374169- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
University of Tartu
2020-2025
Tarbiat Modares University
2017-2019
Soil microbiome has a pivotal role in ecosystem functioning, yet little is known about its build-up from local to regional scales. In multi-year regional-scale survey involving 1251 plots and long-read third-generation sequencing, we found that soil pH the strongest effect on diversity of fungi multiple taxonomic functional groups. The effects were typically unimodal, usually both direct indirect through tree species, nutrients or mold abundance. Individual particularly Pinus sylvestris,...
Fungi are highly diverse organisms, which provide multiple ecosystem services. However, compared with charismatic animals and plants, the distribution patterns conservation needs of fungi have been little explored. Here, we examined endemicity patterns, global change vulnerability priority areas for functional groups soil based on six surveys using a high-resolution, long-read metabarcoding approach. We found that all most peaks in tropical habitats, including Amazonia, Yucatan, West-Central...
How the multiple facets of soil fungal diversity vary worldwide remains virtually unknown, hindering management this essential species-rich group. By sequencing high-resolution DNA markers in over 4000 topsoil samples from natural and human-altered ecosystems across all continents, we illustrate distributions drivers different levels taxonomic phylogenetic fungi their ecological groups. We show impact precipitation temperature interactions on local species richness (alpha diversity)...
Nitrogen (N) deposition and soil acidification are environmental challenges affecting ecosystem functioning, health, biodiversity, but their effects on functional genes poorly understood. Here, we utilized metabarcoding metagenomics to investigate the responses of N along a natural pH gradient. Soil content was uncorrelated with pH, enabling us separately. acidity strongly negatively affected relative abundances most cluster orthologous gene categories metabolism supercategory. Similarly,...
Abstract Partner specificity is a well‐documented phenomenon in biotic interactions, yet the factors that determine plant‐fungal associations remain largely unknown. By utilizing composite soil samples, we identified predictors drive partner both plants and fungi, with particular focus on ectomycorrhizal associations. Fungal guilds exhibited significant differences overall preference avoidance, richness, to specific tree genera. The highest level of was observed root endophytic associations,...
A characteristic trait of plants living in harsh environments is their association with fungal endophytes, which enable them to survive under extreme stress. Abiotic stress resistance agro-ecosystems, particularly arid and semi-arid regions, can be increased by inoculating these endophytes on other than original hosts. The present study therefore focused the possible role three halotolerant endophytic fungi, i.e., Periconia macrospinosa, Neocamarosporium goegapense, N. chichastianum,...
Summary Fungi play pivotal roles in ecosystem functioning, but little is known about their global patterns of diversity, endemicity, vulnerability to change drivers and conservation priority areas. We applied the high-resolution PacBio sequencing technique identify fungi based on a long DNA marker that revealed high proportion hitherto unknown fungal taxa. used Global Soil Mycobiome consortium dataset test relative performance various depth standardization methods (calculation residuals,...
Abstract Fungal endophytes are an important part of the plant microbiome and participate in maintaining stability ecosystems. Culture‐based methods frequently considered studying fungal communities because their advantages providing cultures for further experiments low cost. In comparison with next‐generation sequencing methods, ability to assess diversity is questionable. Here, we show how using two different incubation temperatures can improve yield by culture‐based methods. Diversity,...
Abstract Studies of plant–microbe interactions, including mutualistic, antagonistic, parasitic, or commensal microbes, have greatly benefited our understanding ecosystem functioning. New molecular identification tools increasingly revealed the association patterns between microorganisms and plants. Here, we integrated long-read PacBio single-molecule sequencing technology with a blocking protein-nucleic acid (PNA) approach to minimise plant amplicons in survey plant-eukaryotic microbe...
Partner specificity is a well-known phenomenon in biotic interactions, but little known about and abiotic factors that determine plant-fungal associations. Using PacBio sequencing of soils from monospecific mixed forest stands, we determined the predictors driving partner both ectomycorrhizal plants fungi. Fungal guilds differed strongly patterns preference avoidance, to particular tree genera. Specialist fungi dominated belowground communities, most species preferred one their trees -...