| Budget Amount *help |
¥24,050,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,550,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥11,830,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,730,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥6,370,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,470,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Plant and fungal communities are tightly linked with each other, forming complex webs of symbioses belowground. As feedbacks between plant and fungal community dynamics determine the productivity and stability of both natural and agricultural ecosystems, integrating the knowledge of ecological and evolutionary processes governing below-ground plant-fungus interactions is of particular importance. In a series of studies uncovering hyper-species-rich plant-fungus networks, we have found that not only mycorrhizal fungi but also various taxonomic groups of pathogenic and endophytic fungi form complex webs of interactions with diverse host plants. Such network data can be used for detecting statistical signs of symbiont-symbiont interactions within plant root systems, highlighting network-hub fungi that potentially organize whole microbiome processes.
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