Abstract
Diversity and community composition of bulb-associated fungi of Fritillaria Cirrhosae Bulbus source plants, which are used in traditional chinese medicine, in the eastern Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China, were estimated based on the internal transcribed spacer rDNA sequence analysis, using host plant species, geographic area, and plant phenology as variables. A total of 1,486 fungal sequences assigned to 251 operational taxonomical units (OTUs) were obtained from the bulbs. Fungal OTUs comprised 96.41% Ascomycotina, 3.52% Basidiomycotina, and 0.07% Zygomycotina. Sordariomycetes, Hypocreales, and Nectriaceae were the most frequent fungal lineages at each taxonomic rank.
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Fig. 1. Operational taxonomical units (OTU) richness of dominant fungal lineages sequenced from bulbs of four species of Fritillaria Cirrhosae Bulbus source plants, e collected in four geographic areas and e collected at four plant phenology stages. Fc, ; Fp, ; Fc, e; Fd, ; Fu, ; WX, Weixi; HDB, Huadianba; QJ, Qiaojia; LWQ, Leiwuqi; 2-MP, 2 yr old in mature period; 2-GP, 2 yr old in germination period; 4-FP, 4 yr old in flowering period; 4-GP, 4 yr old in germination period.