Democratization of fungal highway columns as a tool to investigate bacteria associated with soil fungi

© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of FEMS..

Bacteria-fungi interactions (BFIs) are essential in ecosystem functioning. These interactions are modulated not only by local nutritional conditions but also by the physicochemical constraints and 3D structure of the environmental niche. In soils, the unsaturated and complex nature of the substrate restricts the dispersal and activity of bacteria. Under unsaturated conditions, some bacteria engage with filamentous fungi in an interaction (fungal highways) in which they use fungal hyphae to disperse. Based on a previous experimental device to enrich pairs of organisms engaging in this interaction in soils, we present here the design and validation of a modified version of this sampling system constructed using additive printing. The 3D printed devices were tested using a novel application in which a target fungus, the common coprophilous fungus Coprinopsis cinerea, was used as bait to recruit and identify bacterial partners using its mycelium for dispersal. Bacteria of the genera Pseudomonas, Sphingobacterium and Stenotrophomonas were highly enriched in association with C. cinerea. Developing and producing these new easy-to-use tools to investigate how bacteria overcome dispersal limitations in cooperation with fungi is important to unravel the mechanisms by which BFIs affect processes at an ecosystem scale in soils and other unsaturated environments.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:97

Enthalten in:

FEMS microbiology ecology - 97(2021), 2 vom: 11. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Junier, Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Cailleau, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Palmieri, Ilona [VerfasserIn]
Vallotton, Celine [VerfasserIn]
Trautschold, Olivia C [VerfasserIn]
Junier, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Paul, Christophe [VerfasserIn]
Bregnard, Danae [VerfasserIn]
Palmieri, Fabio [VerfasserIn]
Estoppey, Aislinn [VerfasserIn]
Buffi, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Lohberger, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Robinson, Aaron [VerfasserIn]
Kelliher, Julia M [VerfasserIn]
Davenport, Karen [VerfasserIn]
House, Geoffrey L [VerfasserIn]
Morales, Demosthenes [VerfasserIn]
Gallegos-Graves, La Verne [VerfasserIn]
Dichosa, Armand E K [VerfasserIn]
Lupini, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Nguyen, Hang N [VerfasserIn]
Young, Jamey D [VerfasserIn]
Rodrigues, Debora F [VerfasserIn]
Parra-Vasquez, A Nicholas G [VerfasserIn]
Bindschedler, Saskia [VerfasserIn]
Chain, Patrick S G [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Additive printing
Bacteria–fungi interactions
Coprinopsis
Horse dung
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Soil

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Date Completed 20.04.2021

Date Revised 20.04.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/femsec/fiab003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320033058