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The Aberdeen Mycorrhiza Research Group draws on the expertise and facilities available in the University of Aberdeen and the Macaulay Institute to support a wide range of research projects investigating the biology of mycorrhizal symbioses.
The Group has access to excellent molecular, analytical and microscopy laboratories and plant growth facilities. Aberdeen is convenient for access to field sites in a wide range of managed and unmanaged ecosystems including native Scots Pine forest and montane vegetation. The Group also has projects in Tropical Rain Forest and the High Arctic.
To contact any member of the group please follow this link.
Our reseach at Aberdeen falls under four major headings:
- COMPOSITIONAND STRUCTURE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITIES
- MYCORRHIZAS AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES
- MYCORRHIZAS IN TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS
- MOLECULAR ECOLOGY OF SOIL FUNGI
Poster summarising the groups work on pinewood mycorrhizas
1. WHAT DETERMINES THE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF ECTOMYCORRHIZAL COMMUNITIES?
- Spatial ecology of ectomycorrhizas and their external mycelium
- Effects of host genotype on ectomycorrhizal communities
- Ectomycorrhizas in a Scots pine chronosequence
- Conservation & management of rare pinewood fungi
- Ectomycorrhizas of arctic plants
2. MYCORRHIZAS AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES
- Effects of elevated CO2 on ectomycorrhizal fungi
- N-capture by plants of contrasting mycorrhizal strategy
- Carbon flow in the plant/mycorrhizal/soil system
- Impacts of soil mesofaunal communities on carbon flow
- Ericoid/ectomycorrhiza interactions
- N-use by ericoid mycorrhizas
3. MYCORRHIZAS IN TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS
- Mycorrhizas and ecosystem processes in tropical rain forest
- Mycorrhizas and water relations in Sorghum
- Rhizobium/mycorrhiza/arsenic interactions in lentils
- Mycorrhizas of Gnetum
4. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY OF SOIL FUNGI
- Diversity and ecology of soil fungal communities
- Bacterial endophytes of ectomycorrhizas
- Characterisation of ectomycorrhizal communities using DGGE
