Reply to Tedersoo et al.: Plant species within the same family or genus can have different mycorrhizal types?

There are two main methods used to assign plant mycorrhizal type to plant species: empirical vs. phylogenetic–taxonomic (hereafter taxonomic) methods (1). The empirical method uses only available collated empirical data based on direct observation of mycorrhizal type, while the taxonomic approach extrapolates plant mycorrhizal traits to complete taxonomic groups, such as at the genus or family level, based on information about mycorrhizal type from relatives from the same group. In Sun et al. (2), according to the procedure described by Brundrett (3) and Guo et al. (4), we perform our own empirical observations to assign plant mycorrhizal traits for 35 Chinese … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: suntao28329{at}163.com. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1