Bengt Söderström
Through the years I have been working with different aspects of the soil microbial ecosystems and I was appointed professor of Microbial Ecology 1990. My major interest is directed towards the biology of the mycorrhizal symbioses.
The ecological importance of the mycorrhizal symbioses between plants and fungi is still not fully appreciated and many functional aspects of this interaction are not understood. I have a special interest in the ecology and physiology of the fungal partner and how the symbiosis may be affected by environmental changes, particularly interested in the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. I have worked with nutrient uptake of the fungus and the nutrient transfer to the plant partner. Nitrogen has been in particular focus. I have also studied the energy flow from the plant partner to the fungus and the fungal biomass formation based on this carbon allocation.
The last 15 years I have been heavily engaged in more strategic aspects of academic life. I have been Head of the Department of Ecology and Dean of the Faculty of Science. The Vice-Chancellor 2007-2008 assigned me as responsible project manager of an evaluation of all research of Lund University (project RQ08 (pdf)). I then served as executive Head of Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics for more than two years. I also hold a number of other commissions of trust. Thus, I am presently more on the managing and strategic side of the Academy than doing everyday research and teaching. By end of 2011, I formally retired from my position but I still have a number of engagements.
Publications
Retrieved from Lund University's publications database
Publications
- 2005
- Global patterns of gene regulation associated with the development of ectomycorrhiza between birch (Betula pendula Roth.) and Paxillus involutus (Batsch) fr.
(2005) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Journal article - Spatial patterns of gene expression in the extramatrical mycelium and mycorrhizal root tips formed by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus in association with birch (Betula pendula) seedlings in soil microcosms
(2005) New Phytologist
Journal article
- Global patterns of gene regulation associated with the development of ectomycorrhiza between birch (Betula pendula Roth.) and Paxillus involutus (Batsch) fr.
- 2004
- Transcriptional responses of Paxillus involutus and Betula pendula during formation of ectomycorrhizal root tissue
(2004) Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Journal article
- Transcriptional responses of Paxillus involutus and Betula pendula during formation of ectomycorrhizal root tissue
- 2003
- Growth and interactions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils from limestone and acid rock habitats
(2003) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Paired arbuscules in the Arum-type arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis with Linum usitatissimum
(2003) Canadian Journal of Botany
Journal article
- Growth and interactions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils from limestone and acid rock habitats
- 2002
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi respond to the substrate pH of their extraradical mycelium by altered growth and root colonization
(2002) New Phytologist
Journal article - Challenges for mycorrhizal research into the new millennium
(2002) Plant and Soil
Journal article - Visualisation of ectomycorrhizal rhizomorph structure using laser scanning confocal microscopy
(2002) Mycological Research1989-01-01+01:002010-01-01+01:00
Journal article
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi respond to the substrate pH of their extraradical mycelium by altered growth and root colonization
- 2001
- Do nutrient additions alter carbon sink strength of ectomycorrhizal fungi?
(2001) New Phytologist
Journal article - Microscopic detection of phosphatase activity of saprophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi using a fluorogenic substrate
(2001) Mycologia
Journal article
- Do nutrient additions alter carbon sink strength of ectomycorrhizal fungi?
- 1999
- Ammonium and methylamine transport by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus and ectomycorrhizas
(1999) FEMS microbiology ecology
Journal article - Paxillus
(1999)
Book chapter
- Ammonium and methylamine transport by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus and ectomycorrhizas
- 1998
- 1997
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil
(1997) Ambio
Journal article - Effects of liming on the uptake of organic and inorganic nitrogen by mycorrhizal (Paxillus involutus) and non-mycorrhizal Pinus sylvestris plants
(1997) New Phytologist
Journal article
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil
- 1996
- Carbon and nitrogen flow in Silver birch and Norway spruce connected by a common mycorrhizal mycelium
(1996) Mycorrhiza
Journal article - Dynamics of cytoskeletal proteins in developing pine ectomycorrhiza
(1996) Mycorrhiza
Journal article - Dynamics of phosphorus translocation in intact ectomycorrhizal systems: Non-destructive monitoring using a beta-scanner
(1996) FEMS microbiology ecology
Journal article - Ectomycorrhizal mycelia reduce bacterial activity in a sandy soil
(1996) FEMS microbiology ecology
Journal article - Effects of mycorrhizal colonization by Paxillus involutus on uptake of Ca and P by Picea abies and Betula pendula grown in unlimed and limed peat
(1996) New Phytologist
Journal article - Kinetics, energetics and specificity of a general amino acid transporter from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus
(1996) Microbiology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Soil bacteria respond to presence of roots but not to mycelium of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
(1996) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Soil microbial activity in eleven Swedish coniferous forests in relation to site fertility and nitrogen fertilization
(1996) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
Journal article
- Carbon and nitrogen flow in Silver birch and Norway spruce connected by a common mycorrhizal mycelium
- 1995
- Effects of lime (CaCO3) on ectomycorrhizal colonization of Picea abies (L.) Karst. - seedlings planted in a spruce forest
(1995) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
Journal article - Factors affecting amino-acid-uptake by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus
(1995) Mycological Research1989-01-01+01:002010-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Metabolism of [N-15]alanine in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus
(1995) Experimental Mycology1977-01-01+01:001996-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Structure and function of the ectomycorrhizal association between Paxillus involutus (Batsch) Fr. and Betula pendula Roth .L. Dynamics of mycorrhiza formation
(1995) New Phytologist
Journal article - The use of phospholipid and neutral lipid fatty-acids to estimate biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil
(1995) Mycological Research1989-01-01+01:002010-01-01+01:00
Journal article
- Effects of lime (CaCO3) on ectomycorrhizal colonization of Picea abies (L.) Karst. - seedlings planted in a spruce forest
- 1994
- Extramatrical mycelial growth, biomass allocation and nitrogen uptake in ectomycorrhizal systems in response to collembolan grazing
(1994) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Applied Soil Ecology
Journal article - Growth and assimilation of NH4+ and NO3- by Paxillus involutus in association with Betula pendula and Picea abies as affected by substrate pH
(1994) New Phytologist
Journal article - Metabolism of [C-14] glutamate and [C-14] glutamine by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus
(1994) Microbiology1994-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Respiration of [C-14] alanine by the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus
(1994) FEMS Microbiology Letters
Journal article
- Extramatrical mycelial growth, biomass allocation and nitrogen uptake in ectomycorrhizal systems in response to collembolan grazing
- 1993
- Identification of cytoskeletal components in pine ectomycorrhizas
(1993) New Phytologist
Journal article - Nitrogen translocation between Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. seedlings inoculated with Frankia sp and Pinus contorta Doug ex Loud seedlings connected by a common ectomycorrhizal mycelium
(1993) New Phytologist
Journal article
- Identification of cytoskeletal components in pine ectomycorrhizas
- 1992
- Effects of different fertilizer treatments on ectomycorrhizal colonization potential in 2 Scots pine forests in Sweden
(1992) Forest Ecology and Management
Journal article - Mycorrhiza and carbon flow to the soil
(1992)
Book chapter - The Ecological Potential of the ectomycorrhizal Mycelium
(1992)
Book chapter - The microfungal communities of a mixed mire in northern Sweden
(1992) Canadian Journal of Botany
Journal article
- Effects of different fertilizer treatments on ectomycorrhizal colonization potential in 2 Scots pine forests in Sweden
- 1991
- Effects of lime and ash treatments on ectomycorrhizal infection of Pinus sylvestris L. Seedlings planted in a pine forest
(1991) Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
Journal article - Effects of liming on ectomycorrhizal fungi infecting Pinus-sylvestris L. 3. Saprophytic growth and host plant infection at different ph values in unsterile humus
(1991) New Phytologist
Journal article - Reduction of decomposition rates of Scots pine needle litter due to heavy-metal pollution
(1991) Water, Air and Soil Pollution
Journal article - The influence of substrate pH on carbon translocation in ectomycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal pine-seedlings
(1991) New Phytologist
Journal article
- Effects of lime and ash treatments on ectomycorrhizal infection of Pinus sylvestris L. Seedlings planted in a pine forest
- 1990
- Changes in fruitbody production of mycorrhizal and litter decomposing macromycetes in heavy-metal polluted coniferous forests in north Sweden
(1990) Water, Air and Soil Pollution
Journal article - Changes in microfungal community structure after fertilization of Scots pine forest soil with ammonium-nitrate or urea
(1990) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Determination of N-15-labeled ammonium and total nitrogen in plant and fungal systems using mass-spectrometry
(1990) Journal of Microbiological Methods
Journal article - Effects of liming on ectomycorrhizal fungi infecting Pinus sylvestris L .1. Mycorrhizal infection in limed humus in the laboratory and isolation of fungi from mycorrhizal roots
(1990) New Phytologist
Journal article - Effects of liming on ectomycorrhizal fungi infecting Pinus sylvestris L. 2. Growth-rates in pure culture at different ph values compared to growth-rates in symbiosis with the host plant
(1990) New Phytologist
Journal article - Effects of liming on ectomycorrhizal fungi infecting Pinus sylvestris L. II. Growt- rates in pure culture at different pH values compared to growth-rates in symbiosis with the host plant. New Phytologist 115: 683- 688.
(1990) New Phytologist
Journal article - Mycelial uptake, translocation and assimilation of N-15-labeled nitrogen by ectomycorrhizal Pinus sylvestris plants
(1990) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article - The effects of liming on mycelial colonization and carbon allocation in ectomycorrhizal mycelia attached to Pinus silvestris plants
(1990) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article - The influence of nitrogen-fertilization on ectomycorrhizal mycelial colonization and infection
(1990) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Journal article
- Changes in fruitbody production of mycorrhizal and litter decomposing macromycetes in heavy-metal polluted coniferous forests in north Sweden
- 1989
- A chemotaxonomic method for classification of asymmetric Penicillia by means of cross-partition in aqueous 2-phase systems combined with simca pattern-recognition analysis
(1989) Journal of Applied Bacteriology
Journal article - Changes in carbon content, respiration rate, atp content, and microbial biomass in nitrogen-fertilized pine forest soils in Sweden
(1989) Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Journal article - Mycorrhizal mycelia and their role in soil and plant communities
(1989)
Book chapter - Uptake, translocation and assimilation of nitrogen from 15N-labeled ammonium and nitrate sources by intact ectomycorrhizal systems of Fagus sylvatica infected with Paxillus involutus
(1989) New Phytologist
Journal article
- A chemotaxonomic method for classification of asymmetric Penicillia by means of cross-partition in aqueous 2-phase systems combined with simca pattern-recognition analysis
- 1988
- Ectomycorrhiza - ecology of the fungal partner
(1988) Karstenia
Journal article (letter) - Evaluation of soil respiration characteristics to assess heavy-metal effects on soil-microorganisms using glutamic-acid as a substrate
(1988) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Fda-stained fungal mycelium and respiration rate in reinoculated sterilized soil
(1988) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Mycelial uptake, translocation and assimilation of nitrogen from N-15-labelled ammonium by Pinus sylvestris plants infected with 4 different ectomycorrhizal fungi
(1988) New Phytologist
Journal article - The structure and function of the vegetative mycelium of ectomycorrhizal plants .3. Ultrastructural and autoradiographic analysis of inter-plant carbon distribution through intact mycelial systems
(1988) New Phytologist
Journal article - The structure and function of the vegetative mycelium of ectomycorrhizal plants .4. Qualitative-analysis of carbohydrate contents of mycelium interconnecting host plants
(1988) New Phytologist
Journal article
- Ectomycorrhiza - ecology of the fungal partner
- 1987
- Growth of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. hyphae and of bacteria along the roots of rape (Brassica napus L.) seedlings
(1987) Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Journal article - Respiratory activity of intact and excised ectomycorrhizal mycelial systems growing in unsterilized soil
(1987) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article
- Growth of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. hyphae and of bacteria along the roots of rape (Brassica napus L.) seedlings
- 1986
- Isolation of fluorescein diacetate stained hyphae from soil by micromanipulation
(1986) Transactions of the British Mycological Society
Journal article - Soil microbial activity, mycelial lengths and physiological groups of bacteria in a heavy-metal polluted area
(1986) Environmental Pollution
Journal article
- Isolation of fluorescein diacetate stained hyphae from soil by micromanipulation
- 1985
- Soil microfungi in an area polluted by heavy-metals
(1985) Canadian Journal of Botany
Journal article
- Soil microfungi in an area polluted by heavy-metals
- 1984
- A fast and simple method for classification of soil bacterial-populations
(1984) Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde1935-01-01+01:001999-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Fungal populations in podzolic soil experimentally acidified to simulate acid-rain
(1984) Microbial Ecology
Journal article - Fungi in metal contaminated soil near the Gusum Brass Mill, Sweden
(1984) Ambio
Journal article - Separation of closely related asymmetric Penicillia by pyrolysis-gas chromatography and mycotoxin production
(1984) Mycologia
Journal article - Separation of fungal propagules by partition in aqueous polymer 2-phase systems
(1984) Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Journal article - Separation of nitrogen fertilized podzolic soils by pyrolysis-gas chromatography
(1984) Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica
Journal article
- A fast and simple method for classification of soil bacterial-populations
- 1983
- Bacterial numbers in a pine forest soil in relation to environmental-factors
(1983) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Decrease in soil microbial activity and biomasses owing to nitrogen amendments
(1983) Canadian Journal of Microbiology
Journal article - Microfungi and microbial activity along a heavy-metal gradient
(1983) Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Journal article - Oidiodendron scytaloides n.sp.
(1983) Cryptogamie Mycologie
Journal article
- Bacterial numbers in a pine forest soil in relation to environmental-factors
- 1982
- Pyrolysis-gas chromatography combined with simca pattern-recognition for classification of fruit-bodies of some ectomycorrhizal suillus species
(1982) Journal of General Microbiology
Journal article - Seasonal and spatial variation in fungal biomass in a forest soil
(1982) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article
- Pyrolysis-gas chromatography combined with simca pattern-recognition for classification of fruit-bodies of some ectomycorrhizal suillus species
- 1981
- Biological aspects of nitrogen mineralization in humus from a pine forest podsol incubated under different moisture and temperature conditions
(1981) Oikos
Journal article - Effects of nitrogen-fertilization on the activity and biomass of fungi and bacteria in a podzolic soil
(1981) Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie.Allgemeine Angewandte und Okologische Microbiologie Abt.1 Orig.C Hyg.1980-01-01+01:001982-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Impact of microbial-feeding animals on total soil activity and nitrogen dynamics - a soil microcosm experiment
(1981) Oikos
Journal article
- Biological aspects of nitrogen mineralization in humus from a pine forest podsol incubated under different moisture and temperature conditions
- 1980
- Comparisons of the agar-film and membrane-filter methods for the estimation of hyphal lengths in soil, with particular reference to the effect of magnification
(1980) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Degradation of macromolecules by micro-fungi isolated from different podzolic soil horizons
(1980) Canadian Journal of Botany
Journal article - Effects of experimental acidification and liming on soil organisms and decomposition in a scots pine forest
(1980) Pedobiologia
Journal article
- Comparisons of the agar-film and membrane-filter methods for the estimation of hyphal lengths in soil, with particular reference to the effect of magnification
- 1979
- Classification of fungi by means of pyrolysis-gas chromatography pattern recognition
(1979) Journal of Chromatography A
Journal article - Comparison of methods for soil microbial-population and biomass studies
(1979) Zeitschrift für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde1935-01-01+01:001999-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Data-analysis of pyrolysis-chromatograms by means of simca pattern-recognition
(1979) Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
Journal article - Diademospora ramigera gen. et sp. nov from coniferous forest soil
(1979) Transactions of the British Mycological Society
Journal article - Effects of artificial acid rain on microbial activity and biomass
(1979) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Journal article - Fungal biomass and fungal immobilization of plants nutrients in swedish coniferous forest soils
(1979) Revue d' Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol1954-01-01+01:001991-01-01+01:00
Journal article - Fungal biomass and nitrogen in decomposing scots pine needle litter
(1979) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Reproducibility of pyrolysis-gas chromatographic analyses of the mold Penicillium brevi-compactum
(1979) Journal of Chromatography A
Journal article - Seasonal fluctuations of active fungal biomass in horizons of a podzolized pine-forest soil in central Sweden
(1979) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article - Significance of hyphal diameter in calculation of fungal bio-volume
(1979) Oikos
Journal article - Some problems in assessing the fluorescein diacetate-active fungal biomass in the soil
(1979) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article
- Classification of fungi by means of pyrolysis-gas chromatography pattern recognition
- 1978
- Antagonistic effects of Tolypocladium species
(1978) Transactions of the British Mycological Society
Journal article - Effect of nitrogen and carbon supply on the development of soil organism populations and pine seedlings - microcosm experiment
(1978) Oikos
Journal article - Micro fungi in Swedish coniferous forest soils
(1978) Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift
Journal article - Soil microfungi in three Swedish coniferous forests
(1978) Holarctic Ecology1978-01-01+01:001992-01-01+01:00
Journal article
- Antagonistic effects of Tolypocladium species
- 1977
- Vital staining of fungi in pure cultures and in soil with fluorescein diacetate
(1977) Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Journal article
- Vital staining of fungi in pure cultures and in soil with fluorescein diacetate
- 1975
- Vertical distribution of microfungi in a spruce forest soil in south of Sweden
(1975) Transactions of the British Mycological Society
Journal article
- Vertical distribution of microfungi in a spruce forest soil in south of Sweden
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- 1997
- The Mycota. IV Environmental and Microbial Relationships
(1997) The Mycota
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- The Mycota. IV Environmental and Microbial Relationships
