Fungal endophytes of carnivorous and non-carnivorous bog plants

Next generation sequencing is applied to above ground tissue of carnivorous and non-carnivorous plants growing in bogs in the UK and US to sequence ITS2 region of fungal endophyte communtities. Primary goals are to understand the endophyte diversity of these understudied plants, and how endophyte communities differ between plants with different functional traits (trapping mechanisms) and host plant relatedness.