Forest trees are considered important in ameliorating climate change through removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, stabilizing water catchments and for timber production. Wood decay fungi among most biotic factors ecosystems, infecting valuable landscaping causing an economic loss or preeminent recyclers of wood. In a survey forest Alamdardeh forest, northern Iran, fungal fruit bodies we...

The Gloeophyllales is a recently described order of Agaricomycotina containing a morphologically diverse array of polypores (Gloeophyllum), agarics (Neolentinus, Heliocybe) and resupinate fungi (VelutiVeluticeps, Boreostereum, Chaetodermella), most of which have been demonstrated to produce a brownrot mode of wood decay and are found preferentially on coniferous substrates. Multiple phylogeneti...

Decaying wood plays an important role in forest biodiversity, nutrient cycling and carbon balance. Community structure of wood-inhabiting fungi changes with mass loss of wood, but the relationship between substrate quality and decomposers is poorly understood. This limits the extent to which these ecosystem services can be effectively managed. We studied the fungal community and physico-chemica...

BACKGROUND The genome of Schizophyllum commune encodes a diverse repertoire of degradative enzymes for plant cell wall breakdown. Recent comparative genomics study suggests that this wood decayer likely has a mode of biodegradation distinct from the well-established white-rot/brown-rot models. However, much about the extracellular enzyme system secreted by S. commune during lignocellulose decon...

Abstract The role of coarse woody debris (CWD) in the global carbon (C) cycle is growing under increasing tree mortality driven by climate variability and disturbances. Quantifying C CWD critically depends on accurate estimates density concentration CWD. This study considered main decomposition pathways (the proportions decomposed fungi vs. invertebrates; fungal decay types) relationships betwe...

Stereum hirsutum is a white-rot fungus which produces laccase and manganese peroxidase as part of its ligninolytic system. Maximal ligninases production (under the conditions studied) was obtained in the media containing 250 microM Cu++ along with a pH value of 5.5. The fitting of ligninase production to a linear equation showed negative interaction between increasing values of pH and concentra...

Conventional wood preservatives have provided excellent protection against wood-degrading organisms; however, increasing public mistrust of these chemicals has encouraged a search for alternative wood protection strategies that take advantage of the physiological capabilities of the target organisms. One approach is to use chelators to sequester elements required by fungi to initiate the decay ...