Some recent papers on mycorrhizal fungal community structure:

Dickie IA, Koide RT, Steiner K. (2002) Influences of established trees on mycorrhizas, nutrition, and growth of Quercus rubra seedlings. Ecological Monographs 72:505-521.

Dickie IA, Xu B, Koide RT (2002). Vertical niche differentiation of ectomycorrhizal hyphae in soil as shown by T-RFLP analysis. New Phytologist 156:527-535.

Koide RT, Xu B, Sharda J, Lekberg Y, Ostiguy N (2005) Evidence of species interactions within an ectomycorrhizal fungal community. New Phytologist 165: 305-316.

Koide RT, Xu B, Sharda J (2005) Contrasting belowground views of an ectomycorrhizal fungal community. New Phytologist 166: 251-262.

Other projects have included:

Interactions between mycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi

Koide RT and Kabir Z (2001) Nutrient economy of red pine is affected by interactions between Pisolithus tinctorius and other forest floor microbes. New Phytologist 150:179-188.

Koide RT, Wu T (2003) Ectomycorrhizas and retarded decomposition in a Pinus resinosa plantation. New Phytologist 158:401-407.

Wu T, Sharda JN, Koide RT (2003) Exploring interactions between saprotrophic microbes and ectomycorrhizal fungi using a protein-tannin complex as an N source by red pine (Pinus resinosa). New Phytologist 159:131-139.

Wu T, Kabir Z, Koide RT (2005) A possible role for saprotrophic microfungi in the N nutrition of ectomycorrhizal Pinus resinosa. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37:965-975.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agriculture

Boswell EP, Koide RT, Shumway DL and Addy HD (1998). Winter wheat cover cropping, VA mycorrhizal fungi and maize growth and yield. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 67:55-65.

Kabir Z and Koide RT (1999) The effect of dandelion or a cover crop on mycorrhiza inoculum potential, soil aggregation and yield of maize. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 78: 167-174.

Kabir Z, Koide RT. (2002) Effect of autumn and winter mycorrhizal cover crops on soil properties, nutrient uptake and yield of maize in Pennsylvania, USA. Plant and Soil 238:205-215.

Lekberg Y, Koide RT. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, available soil P and nodulation of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) in Zimbabwe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, in press.

Lekberg Y, Koide RT (2005) Is plant performance limited by abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi? A meta-analysis of studies published between 1988 and 2003. New Phytologist, in press.

Concepts of nutrient efficiency

Koide RT and Elliott G (1989) Cost, benefit and efficiency of the vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Functional Ecology 3:252-255.

Koide RT, Dickie IA, Goff MD (1999) Phosphorus deficiency, plant growth and the phosphorus efficiency index. Functional Ecology 13: 733-736.

Koide RT, Goff MD, Dickie IA (2000) Component growth efficiencies of mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal plants. New Phytologist 148:163-168.

Plant fitness

Koide RT (1991) Density-dependent response to mycorrhizal infection in Abutilon theophrasti Medic. Oecologia 85:389-395.

Lu X and Koide RT (1991) Avena fatua L. seed and seedling nutrient dynamics as influenced by mycorrhizal infection of the maternal generation. Plant, Cell and Environment 14:931-939.

Koide RT and Lu X. (1992) Mycorrhizal infection of wild oats: maternal effects on offspring growth and reproduction. Oecologia 90:218-226.

Stanley MR, Koide RT and Shumway DL (1993) Mycorrhizal symbiosis increases growth, reproduction and recruitment of Abutilon theophrasti Medic. in the field. Oecologia 94:30-35.

Koide RT, Shumway DL and Mabon SA (1994) Mycorrhizal fungi and reproduction of field populations of Abutilon theophrasti Medic. (Malvaceae). New Phytologist 126:123-130.

Shumway DL and Koide RT (1994) Within season variability in mycorrhizal benefit to reproduction in Abutilon theophrasti Medic. Plant Cell and Environment 17:821-827.

Lu X and Koide RT (1994) The effects of mycorrhizal infection on components of plant growth and reproduction. New Phytologist 128:211-218.

Shumway DL and Koide RT (1994) Reproductive responses to mycorrhizal colonization of Abutilon theophrasti Medic. plants grown for two generations in the field. New Phytologist 128:219-224.

Koide RT and Lu X (1995) On the cause of offspring superiority conferred by maternal mycorrhizal infection. New Phytologist 131:435-441.

Heppell KB, Shumway DL and Koide RT (1998) The effect of mycorrhizal infection of Abutilon theophrasti on competitiveness of offspring. Functional Ecology 12:171-175.

Poulton JL, Koide RT, Stephenson AG. (2001) Effects of mycorrhizal infection and soil phosphorus availability on in vitro and in vivo pollen performance in Lycopersicon esculentum (Solanaceae). American J Botany 88:1786-1793.

Poulton JL, Koide RT, Stephenson AG. (2001) Effects of mycorrhizal infection, soil phosphorus availability and fruit production on the male function in two cultivars of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. Plant Cell and Environment 24:841-849.

Poulton JL, Bryla D, Koide RT, Stephenson AG. (2002) Mycorrhizal infection and high soil phosphorus improve vegetative growth and the female and male functions in tomato. New Phytologist 154:255-264.

Koide RT, Dickie IA (2002) Effects of mycorrhizal fungi on plant populations. Plant and Soil 244:307-317.

Effects of mycorrhizal fungi on plant communities

Koide RT, Huenneke LF and Mooney HA (1987) Gopher mound soil reduces growth and affects ion uptake of two annual grassland species. Oecologia 72:284-290.

Koide RT and Mooney HA (1987) Spatial variation in inoculum potential of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi caused by formation of gopher mounds. New Phytologist 107:173-182.

Koide RT, Huenneke LF, Hamburg S and Mooney HA (1988) Effects of fungicide, phosphorus and nitrogen applications on annual serpentine grassland communities. Functional Ecology 2:335-344.                 

Koide RT and Li M (1991) Mycorrhizal fungi and the nutrient ecology of three oldfield annual plant species. Oecologia 85:403-412.

Sanders I and Koide RT (1993) Nutrient acquisition and community structure in co-occurring mycotrophic and nonmycotrophic old field annuals. Functional Ecology 8:77-84.

Physiology of mycorrhizal fungi

Addy HD, Boswell EP and Koide RT (1998) Low temperature acclimation and freezing resistance of extraradical VA mycorrhizal hyphae. Mycological Research 102:582-586.

Koide RT, Shumway DL and Stevens CM (2000) Soluble carbohydrates of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) mycorrhizas and mycorrhizal fungi. Mycological Research 104:834-840.

Koide RT and Kabir Z. (2000) Extraradical hyphae of the mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices can hydrolyze organic phosphate. New Phytologist 148:511-517.

Methods

Koide RT and Li M (1989) Appropriate controls for vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza research. New Phytologist 111:35-46.

Koide RT, Dickie IA. (2002) Kit-based, low-toxicity method for extracting and purifying fungal DNA from ectomycorrhizal roots. BioTechniques 32:52-56.

Koide RT (2005) Nucleic acid isolation from ecological samples-fungal associations, mycorrhizae. In: Zimmer E, Roalson E, eds. Methods in enzymology, volume 395, Molecular evolution: producing the biochemical data, Part B, pp.58-72.