From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Where O2 is absent or minimal, certain fungi can denitrify nitrate or nitrite, resulting in the production of N2O (Shoun et al. 2012). Denitrification is important because N2O is a particularly effective greenhouse gas, and because […]

From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Nitrogen and P transporters. In order to directly acquire N, P, and other nutrients from the environment, fungi can construct membrane transport proteins (i.e., transporters or permeases) to take up relatively small organic compounds such as […]

From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Extracellular chitinase. Chitin is produced within the cell walls of most fungi (Rosenberger 1976) and it is also a primary component of arthropod exoskeletons. It consists of chains of N-acetylglucosamine, and is one of the more […]

From: Treseder KK, Lennon JT. 2015. Fungal traits that drive ecosystem dynamics on land. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 79:243-262. Extracellular phosphatase. Organic P represents one of the more common sources of P in soil (Barrow 1961, Walker and Syers 1976). In many soil organic P compounds, P is bound to C via an ester linkage […]