Genome studies have helped uncover an entirely new branch of fungi that includes 600 seemingly unconnected fungi. However, when digging into the genome sequencing of each fungus, researchers ...
American Journal of Botany, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Mar., 2004), pp. 449-464 (17 pages) To provide a comprehensive molecular phylogeny for peltigeralean fungi and to establish a classification based on ...
1. A Contemporary View of the Holomorph: Nucleic Acid Sequence and Computer Databases are Changing Fungal Classification / J.W. Taylor -- 2. The Fungal Holomorph: An Overview / D.R. Reynolds -- 3.
Considerable revisionary effort is currently being directed toward the systematics of the Fungi Imperfecti and, in particular, toward the classification of the hyphomycetous molds. The classical ...
Fungi represent an ancient and extremely diverse group of eukaryotic organisms, including familiar forms like yeasts, moulds and mushrooms. Recent estimates suggest that around 2.2 to 3.8 million ...
The first time someone took note of Coniochaeta pulveracea was more than two hundred years ago, when the South African-born mycologist Dr Christiaan Hendrik Persoon mentioned it in his 1797 book on ...
The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of microscopic soil fungi collected worldwide. This invaluable treasury is the ...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify the type of trees affected by Phanerochaete velutina. A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a cognitive test with flying ...
Fungi exist throughout the environment. Some of them are useful, for example as food or as the basis of medication. Others are less desirable, such as mold on food, or spores that cause diseases.