Franziska Zahn

Ecology of Fungi

Forschungsinteressen:

• Mycorrhizal interaction between plants and fungi: Carbon and nutrient dynamics, Mycoheterotrophy
• Saprotrophic fungi: Cultivation and recolonisation of rare fungal species
• Stable isotopes in ecology

Selected Publications

2025

Yung-I Lee, Franziska E. Zahn, Qiao-Yi Xie, Shu-Hui Wu, Gerhard Gebauer: Diverse mycorrhizal associations and nutrition in Didymoplexis orchids. In: Mycorrhiza, 35 (2025). - 34.
doi:10.1007/s00572-025-01208-5

2024

Franziska E. Zahn:Exploring plant nutritional strategies in orchid and arbuscular mycorrhizal associations using stable isotope natural abundance. - Bayreuth: 2024. - VIII, 243 S.
(Dissertation, 2024, Universität Bayreuth, Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007828

Franziska E. Zahn, Hong Jiang, Yung-I Lee, Gerhard Gebauer: Mode of carbon gain and fungal associations of Neuwiedia malipoensis within the evolutionarily early-diverging orchid subfamily Apostasioideae. In: Annals of Botany, 134 (2024). - S. 511-520.
doi:10.1093/aob/mcae097

Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Sofia I. F. Gomes, Deyi Wang, Cas Verbeek, Hans Jacquemyn, Franziska E. Zahn, Gerhard Gebauer, Martin I. Bidartondo: Mycoheterotrophy in the wood-wide web. In: Nature Plants, 10 (2024). - S. 710-718.
doi:10.1038/s41477-024-01677-0

Franziska E. Zahn, Blexein Contreras, Bettina Engelbrecht, Gerhard Gebauer: Stable isotope analysis indicates partial mycoheterotrophy in arbuscular mycorrhizal woody seedlings in tropical forests. In: Functional Ecology, 38 (2024). - S. 2720-2733.
doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14689

2023

Franziska E. Zahn, Erik Söll, Thomas K. Chapin, Deyi Wang, Sofia I. F. Gomes, Nicole A. Hynson, Johanna Pausch, Gerhard Gebauer: Novel insights into orchid mycorrhiza functioning from stable isotope signatures of fungal pelotons. In: New Phytologist, 239 (2023). - S. 1449-1463.
doi:10.1111/nph.18991

Deyi Wang, Gerhard Gebauer, Hans Jacquemyn, Franziska E. Zahn, Sofia I. F. Gomes, Johanna Lorenz, Harrie van der Hagen, Menno Schilthuizen, Vincent S. F. T. Merckx: Variation in mycorrhizal communities and the level of mycoheterotrophy in grassland and forest populations of Neottia ovata (Orchidaceae). In: Functional Ecology, 37 (2023). - S. 1948-1961.
doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14354

2022

Franziska E. Zahn, Yung-I Lee, Gerhard Gebauer: Fungal association and root morphology shift stepwise during ontogenesis of orchid Cremastra appendiculata towards autotrophic nutrition. In: AoB PLANTS, 14 (2022). - plac021.
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plac021