Modern taxonomic studies of Agaricomycetes rely on the integrative analyses morphology, environmental data, geographic distribution, and usually several DNA loci. However, sampling selection loci for are commonly shallow. In this study, we suggest minimal numbers necessary specimens to sample analyze in order prevent inadequate decisions species groups with minor morphological genealogical diff...

Kombocles bakaiana gen. sp. nov. is described as new to science. This sequestrate, partially hypogeous fungus was collected around and within the stilt root system of an ectomycorrhizal (ECM) tree of the genus Uapaca (Phyllanthaceae) in a Guineo-Congolian mixed tropical rainforest in Cameroon. Molecular data place this fungus in Boletaceae (Boletales, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) with no clea...

Cotton root rot is an important soilborne disease of cotton and numerous dicot plants in the south-western United States and Mexico. The causal organism, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (= Phymatotrichum omnivorum), is known only as an asexual, holoanamorphic (mitosporic) fungus, and produces conidia resembling those of Botrytis. Although the corticoid basidiomycetes Phanerochaete omnivora (Polypora...

A new species, Geastrum juliae, is described from Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. Based on analysis of sequences retrieved GenBank, this taxon also found China. The closest species G. rubellum based morphology and phylogenetics. We present with illustrated descriptions molecular data.

Fomitopsis pinicola is a species of Polyporales frequently encountered in Nordic temperate and boreal forests. In nature, the fungus causes destructive brown rot in wood, colonizing tree trunks often occupied by other Basidiomycota species. We mimicked these species-species interactions by introducing F. pinicola to five white rot species, all common saprotrophs of Norway spruce. Hyphal interac...

Abstract Morphological, anatomical and ultrastructural characteristics are important for taxonomical phylogenetic studies of fungi. For scanning electron microscopy (SEM), usually only dry voucher specimens available. dried plant material, Aerosol® OT (AOT) has been shown to be a suitable rehydration agent SEM preparation. swelling stabilization fungal cells, however, this simple method does no...