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Phylogenetic constrains on mycorrhizal specificity in eight Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) species

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Plant phylogeny constrains orchid mycorrhizal (OrM) fungal community composition in some orchids. Here, we investigated the structures of the OrM fungal communities of eight Dendrobium species in one niche to determine whether similarities in the OrM fungal communities correlated with the phylogeny of the host plants and whether the Dendrobium-OrM fungal interactions are phylogenetically conserved. A phylogeny based on DNA data was constructed for the eight coexisting Dendrobium species, and the OrM fungal communities were characterized by their roots. There were 31 different fungal lineages associated with the eight Dendrobium species. In total, 82.98% of the identified associations belonging to Tulasnellaceae, and a smaller proportion involved members of the unknown Basidiomycota (9.67%). Community analyses revealed that phylogenetically related Dendrobium tended to interact with a similar set of Tulasnellaceae fungi. The interactions between Dendrobium and Tulasnellaceae fungi were significantly influenced by the phylogenetic relationships among the Dendrobium species. Our results provide evidence that the mycorrhizal specificity in the eight coexisting Dendrobium species was phylogenetically conserved.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Qiang Liu from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science and Dr. Yu Zhang from Beijing Botanical Garden for their kind help in sample collection. This work was supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (81274197).

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    Xiaoke Xing, Xueting Ma, Jinxin Men, Yanhong Chen & Shunxing Guo

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Xing, X., Ma, X., Men, J. et al. Phylogenetic constrains on mycorrhizal specificity in eight Dendrobium (Orchidaceae) species. Sci. China Life Sci. 60, 536–544 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-017-9020-1

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