Many orchid species are endangered due to anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction and overharvesting, meanwhile, all orchids rely on orchid mycorrhizal fungi (OMF) for seed germination and seedling growth. Therefore, a better understanding of this intimate association is crucial for orchid conservation. Isolation and identification of OMF remain challenging as many fungi are unculturable. In our study, we tested the efficiency of both culture-dependent and culture-independent methods to describe OMF diversity in multiple temperate orchids and assessed any phylogenetic patterns in cultivability. The culture-dependent method involved the cultivation and identification of single pelotons (intracellular hyphal coils), while the culture-independent method used next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify root-associated fungal communities. We found that most orchid species were associated with multiple fungi, and the orchid host had a greater impact than locality on the variability in fungal communities. The culture-independent method revealed greater fungal diversity than the culture-dependent one, but despite the lower detection, the isolated fungal strains were the most abundant OMF in adult roots. Additionally, the abundance of NGS reads of cultured OTUs was correlated with the extent of mycorrhizal root colonization in orchid plants. Finally, this limited-scale study tentatively suggests that the cultivability character of OMF may be randomly distributed along the phylogenetic trees of the rhizoctonian families.

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