Mark M. Smits

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

Firoz Shah, César Nicolás, Johan Bentzer et al. · New Phytologist · 2015 · 366 citations · Full text

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

César Nicolás, Tomas Martin-Bertelsen, Dimitrios Floudas et al. · The ISME Journal · 2018 · 213 citations · Full text

Engineering, Soil Organic Matter, Forest Mycobiome +18

Plant-driven fungal weathering: Early stages of mineral alteration at the nanometer scale

Steeve Bonneville, Mark M. Smits, John P. Harrington et al. · Geology · 2009 · 208 citations

The ectomycorrhizal fungus <i>Paxillus involutus</i> converts organic matter in plant litter using a trimmed brown‐rot mechanism involving Fenton chemistry

François Rineau, Doris Roth, Firoz Shah et al. · Environmental Microbiology · 2012 · 204 citations · Full text

Fenton Chemistry, Engineering, Forest Mycobiome +18

Carbon availability triggers the decomposition of plant litter and assimilation of nitrogen by an ectomycorrhizal fungus

François Rineau, Firoz Shah, Mark M. Smits et al. · The ISME Journal · 2013 · 144 citations · Full text