Fungal Community Composition and Diversity Across Soil Depths Under Different Cover Crop Treatments.

Ephantus J Muturi, Christopher A Dunlap, Jose L Ramirez, William L Perry, Nicholas Heller, Robert L Rhykerd

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Ephantus J MuturiU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5905-065X

Christopher A DunlapU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604, USA.

Jose L RamirezU.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Crop Bioprotection Research Unit, 1815 N. University St., Peoria, IL 61604, USA.

William L PerrySchool of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61670, USA.

Nicholas HellerDepartment of Agriculture, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61670, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6851-2481

Robert L RhykerdDepartment of Agriculture, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61670, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungi are a critical component of microbial biomass in agricultural soils, but their distribution across soil depths under different cover crops remains poorly understood. We used high-throughput sequencing of fungal ITS1 amplicons to characterize fungal communities across four soils depths (0-2, 2-4, 4-10, and 10-20 cm) in experimental field plots under four cover crop treatments: winter fallow reference (REF), cereal rye (CRYE), wild pennycress (WPEN), and a mixture of pea, crimson clover, radish, and oat (PCRO). There was no significant interaction between soil depth and cover crop treatment on both alpha diversity and beta diversity. CRYE and PCRO cover crops had low abundance of

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cover cropsfungal communitymycobiomesoil depthsoil propertiestrophic mode

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PMID41745243

DOI10.3390/jof12020100

PMCPMC12941469

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