What is it about?
In this study we have identified the airborne spore community by using spore traps together with both ITS sequencing and qPCR. In parallel, we studied the mushroom community found nearby the spore traps. We have seen quantitative relationships between spore abundances and fruiting body production for 5 out of 7 considered species. We have also observed that there is a peak in spore abundance from one to two weeks after fruiting body production. Spores from both saprotroph and ectomycorrhizal species remains in the airborne not more than two weeks for most of the species. Many spores detected at the spore traps were coming from mushrooms growing outside the sampling plots. Spore trapping could be used to characterize the mushroom community, but also to study dispersal in fungi
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Why is it important?
We think this study is important because dispersal in fungi is still poorly studied, and because this method could represent a new approach to characterize the mushroom community. We believe this method could also be used to detect endangered fungal species.
Perspectives
Despite the potential interest of this approach, still further research is needed to improve spore detection tools and fungal community characterization. This study also encourage further research on technical and methodological approaches, thus there is room for improvement of the method
Mr Carles C Castaño
Universitat de Lleida
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This page is a summary of: Mushroom Emergence Detected by Combining Spore Trapping with Molecular Techniques, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2017, ASM Journals,
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00600-17.
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