Claim · model-written summary
Root and soil fungal relative abundance correlated with that of other fungal genera.
- Taxon
- Quercus mongolica
Quercus mongolicat0 - Second interactor
- Lactariuse0symbiont
- Outcome
- relative abundance of Russula and Lactariuse0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“the relative abundance of Russula and Lactarius in the roots and soils showed a linear correlation with the relative abundance of the other fungal genera.”
t0“The community composition variation of Russulaceae associated with the Quercus mongolica forest during the growing season at Wudalianchi City, China”
Title
Pengjie Xing; Yang Xu; Tingting Gao; et al. PeerJ 2020. doi:10.7717/peerj.8527
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The Quercus forest contained 56 Russulaceae species.
- Observation Russula was the dominant Russulaceae group.
- Observation Russula sporocarps appeared earlier than Lactarius sporocarps.
- Observation Aboveground Russulaceae species count rose and then declined over the growing season.
- Association Aboveground species count was significantly associated with average monthly air temperature.
- Observation Root Russulaceae species counts peaked in September and were lowest in August.
- Observation Soil Russulaceae species counts peaked in October and were lowest in June.
- Observation Root and soil Russulaceae species counts showed no apparent overall seasonal trend.