真菌菌丝体是土壤微生物组的主要组成部分。土壤磷素代表了特定微生物的复杂而动态的生态位,发生多种营养相互作用的地方,影响生态系统过程。然而,从土壤中提取真菌菌丝体以实现其分类学,化学,在没有快速的情况下,结构表征是具有挑战性的,高效,和低成本的程序。在这项研究中,一种古老的方法(BingleandPaul1985),基于连续的土壤湿滤和密度梯度离心,在三种不同的土壤类型(粉质粘土,粉质粘土壤土,和肥沃的沙子)。改进的方法将过滤次数减少了约5次,离心时间从40分钟减少到1分钟。它避免使用任何可能损害进一步化学分析或DNA分离和扩增的化学物质。方法效率在粘土中约为50%,在沙质土壤中约为23%。然而,在立体显微镜下去除细根碎片和其他碎片的前步骤可以将方法效率提高到65%以上,与土壤类型无关。•Asimple,高效,方法成本低,适用于从大量样品中提取土壤菌丝体。•方案包括连续的土壤湿滤和蔗糖梯度离心。•如果先前从土壤中去除细根碎片和其他碎片,则方法效率增加。
Fungal mycelium is a major component of the soil microbiome. The soil hyphosphere represents a complex and dynamic niche for specific microorganisms, where multitrophic interactions occur, affecting ecosystem processes. However, extracting fungal mycelium from the soil to enable its taxonomical, chemical, and structural characterisation is challenging in the absence of a fast, efficient, and low-cost procedure. In this study, an old method (Bingle and Paul 1985), based on successive soil wet filtrations and density gradient centrifugation, was improved and tested in three different soil types (silty clay, silty clay loam, and loamy sand). The improved method reduced the number of filtrations by about five times and the centrifugation time from 40 min to 1 min. It avoided using any chemical substance which may impair further chemical analyses or DNA isolation and amplification. The method efficiency was about 50 % in the clay and 23 % in the sandy soils. However, a pre-step consisting of removing the fine-root fragments and other debris under the stereomicroscope may increase the method efficiency to more than 65 %, independent of the soil type.•A simple, efficient, and low-cost method suitable for extracting soil mycelium from a large number of samples.•The protocol includes successive soil wet filtrations and sucrose gradient centrifugation.•The method efficiency increases if the fine-root fragments and other debris are previously removed from the soil.