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Anders Tunlid

Anders Tunlid

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
17282
World Ranking
11186
National Ranking
161

Overview

Anders Tunlid is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has made contributions to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science through 27 and 17 publications, respectively. Their work spans subfields including Plant Science, Ecology, Insect Science, Soil Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research focuses on main topics such as Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Enzyme-mediated dye degradation, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Iron oxide chemistry and applications, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Frequent coauthors in their works include Per Persson, Michiel Op De Beeck, Luigi Gentile, Ulf Olsson, and Dimitrios Floudas.

Common publication venues for Anders Tunlid's research include Soil Biology and Biochemistry, The ISME Journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and New Phytologist.

The following recent papers illustrate the themes and venues of their research:

  • Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices - Highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition reactions (2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Uncovering the hidden diversity of litter-decomposition mechanisms in mushroom-forming fungi (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Nitrogen acquisition from mineral-associated proteins by an ectomycorrhizal fungus (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Decomposition of soil organic matter by ectomycorrhizal fungi: Mechanisms and consequences for organic nitrogen uptake and soil carbon stabilization (2022, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)
  • Regulation of fungal decomposition at single-cell level (2020, The ISME Journal)

Best Publications

  • Phospholipid Fatty Acid composition, biomass, and activity of microbial communities from two soil types experimentally exposed to different heavy metals.

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

  • Use and misuse of PLFA measurements in soils

    Åsa Frostegård;Anders Tunlid;Erland Bååth

  • The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis

    F. Martin;A. Aerts;D. Ahrén;A. Brun

  • Microbial biomass measured as total lipid phosphate in soils of different organic content

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

  • Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists.

    Annegret Kohler;Annegret Kohler;Alan Kuo;Laszlo G Nagy;Laszlo G Nagy;Emmanuelle Morin;Emmanuelle Morin

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi – potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

    Björn D. Lindahl;Anders Tunlid

  • Biochemical analysis of biomass community structure nutritional status and metabolic activity of microbial communities in soil

    Anders Tunlid;David C. White

  • Global patterns of diversity and community structure in marine bacterioplankton

    Thomas Pommier;B Canbäck;Lasse Riemann;Kjärstin H Boström

  • Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus)

    Jason E. Stajich;Jason E. Stajich;Jason E. Stajich;Sarah K. Wilke;Dag Ahrén;Chun Hang Au

  • Changes in microbial community structure during long-term incubation in two soils experimentally contaminated with metals

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi decompose soil organic matter using oxidative mechanisms adapted from saprotrophic ancestors

    Firoz Shah;César Nicolás;Johan Bentzer;Magnus Ellström

  • Characterization of Bacteria That Suppress Rhizoctonia Damping-Off in Bark Compost Media by Analysis of Fatty Acid Biomarkers

    A. Tunlid;H. A. J. Hoitink;C. Low;D. C. White

  • The ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus converts organic matter in plant litter using a trimmed brown-rot mechanism involving Fenton chemistry

    Francois Rineau;Doris Roth;Firoz Shah;Mark Smits

  • Physiological and morphological changes during short term starvation of marine bacterial islates

    Per Mårdén;Anders Tunlid;Karin Malmcrona-Friberg;Göran Odham

  • Improving the pathogenicity of a nematode-trapping fungus by genetic engineering of a subtilisin with nematotoxic activity.

    Johan Åhman;Tomas Johansson;Maja Olsson;P J Punt

  • Exploring the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil carbon dynamics

    Donald R. Zak;Peter T. Pellitier;William A. Argiroff;Buck Castillo

  • Purification and characterization of an extracellular serine protease from the nematode-trapping fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora.

    Anders Tunlid;Stefan Rosén;Bo Ek;Lars Rask

  • The soil organic matter decomposition mechanisms in ectomycorrhizal fungi are tuned for liberating soil organic nitrogen

    César Nicolás;Tomas Martin-Bertelsen;Dimitrios Floudas;Johan Bentzer

  • Pollination by deceit, floral sex ratios and seed set in dioecious Rubus chamaemorus L.

    J. Ågren;T. Elmqvist;A. Tunlid

  • Bacterial communities in peat in relation to botanical composition as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysis.

    Peter Borga;Mats Nilsson;Anders Tunlid

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Persson
Per Persson Linköping University
David C. White
David C. White University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Tao Wang
Tao Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erland Bååth
Erland Bååth Lund University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Annegret Kohler
Annegret Kohler University of Lorraine
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside
Lars Rask
Lars Rask Uppsala University
Per Lundberg
Per Lundberg Lund University

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