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Psurtseva NV, Kiyashko AA, Senik SV, Shakhova NV, Belova NV. The Conservation and Study of Macromycetes in the Komarov Botanical Institute Basidiomycetes Culture Collection-Their Taxonomical Diversity and Biotechnological Prospects. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:1196. [PMID: 38132796 PMCID: PMC10744906 DOI: 10.3390/jof9121196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Culture collections (CCs) play an important role in the ex situ conservation of biological material and maintaining species and strains, which can be used for scientific and practical purposes. The Komarov Botanical Institute Basidiomycetes Culture Collection (LE-BIN) preserves a large number of original dikaryon strains of various taxonomical and ecological groups of fungi from different geographical regions. Started in the late 1950s for the investigation of Basidiomycetes' biological activity, today, in Russia, it has become a unique specialized macromycetes collection, preserving 3680 strains from 776 species of fungi. The Collection's development is aimed at ex situ conservation of fungal diversity, with an emphasis on preserving rare and endangered species, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and strains useful for biotechnology and medicine. The main methods applied in the collection for maintaining and working with cultures are described, and the results are presented. Some problems for the isolation and cultivation of species are discussed. The taxonomical structure and variety of the strains in the collection fund are analyzed, and they show that the taxonomical diversity of fungi in the LE-BIN is commensurable with the largest CCs in the world. The achievements from the ex situ conservation of the diversity of macromycetes and the main results from the screening and investigation of the collection's strains demonstrate that a number of strains can be prospective producers of enzymes (oxidoreductases and proteases), lipids, and biologically active compounds (terpenoids, phthalides, etc.) for biotechnology and medicine.
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- Nadezhda V. Psurtseva
- Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 197376 St. Petersburg, Russia; (A.A.K.); (S.V.S.); (N.V.S.); (N.V.B.)
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Pereira DS, Phillips AJL. Palm Fungi and Their Key Role in Biodiversity Surveys: A Review. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:1121. [PMID: 37998926 PMCID: PMC10672035 DOI: 10.3390/jof9111121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2023] [Revised: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
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Over the past three decades, a wealth of studies has shown that palm trees (Arecaceae) are a diverse habitat with intense fungal colonisation, making them an important substratum to explore fungal diversity. Palm trees are perennial, monocotyledonous plants mainly restricted to the tropics that include economically important crops and highly valued ornamental plants worldwide. The extensive research conducted in Southeast Asia and Australasia indicates that palm fungi are undoubtedly a taxonomically diverse assemblage from which a remarkable number of new species is continuously being reported. Despite this wealth of data, no recent comprehensive review on palm fungi exists to date. In this regard, we present here a historical account and discussion of the research on the palm fungi to reflect on their importance as a diverse and understudied assemblage. The taxonomic structure of palm fungi is also outlined, along with comments on the need for further studies to place them within modern DNA sequence-based classifications. Palm trees can be considered model plants for studying fungal biodiversity and, therefore, the key role of palm fungi in biodiversity surveys is discussed. The close association and intrinsic relationship between palm hosts and palm fungi, coupled with a high fungal diversity, suggest that the diversity of palm fungi is still far from being fully understood. The figures suggested in the literature for the diversity of palm fungi have been revisited and updated here. As a result, it is estimated that there are about 76,000 species of palm fungi worldwide, of which more than 2500 are currently known. This review emphasises that research on palm fungi may provide answers to a number of current fungal biodiversity challenges.
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- Diana S. Pereira
- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute (BioISI), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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Mirabile G, Ferraro V, Mancuso FP, Pecoraro L, Cirlincione F. Biodiversity of Fungi in Freshwater Ecosystems of Italy. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9:993. [PMID: 37888249 PMCID: PMC10607542 DOI: 10.3390/jof9100993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 09/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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Fungal biodiversity is still mostly unknown and their presence in particular ecosystems such as freshwater habitats is often underestimated. The ecological role that these fungi play in freshwater environments mainly concerns their activity as decomposers of litter and plant material. At present, it is estimated that 3870 species belong to the ecological group of freshwater fungi (13 phyla and 45 classes). In this survey, we provide an overview of the Italian freshwater fungal diversity on the basis of the field and literature data. In the literature, data on freshwater fungi are fragmentary and not updated, focusing mainly on northern Italy where the most important lakes and rivers are present, while data from central and southern Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia) are almost completely ineffective. In particular, Ascomycota are reported in only 14 publications, most of which concern the freshwater environments of Lombardia, Piemonte, and Veneto. Only one publication explores the biodiversity of freshwater Basidiomycota in the wetlands of the Cansiglio forest (Veneto). The field observation allowed for us to identify 38 species of Basidiomycota growing in riparian forest of Italy. However, the number of fungi in freshwater habitats of Italy is strongly underestimated and many species are still completely unknown.
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- Giulia Mirabile
- Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Bldg. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.M.); (F.C.)
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Piazza Marina 61 (c/o Palazzo Steri), 90133 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy-Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, University Campus “Ernesto Quagliariello”, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Sea Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Bldg. 16, 90128 Palermo, Italy
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- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Bldg. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (G.M.); (F.C.)
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Zambrano-Forero CJ, Dávila-Giraldo LR, Motato-Vásquez V, Villanueva PX, Rondón-Barragán IS, Murillo‑Arango W. Diversity and distribution of macrofungi (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota) in Tolima, a Department of the Colombian Andes: an annotated checklist. Biodivers Data J 2023; 11:e104307. [PMID: 38327361 PMCID: PMC10848862 DOI: 10.3897/bdj.11.e104307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2024] Open
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Background Macrofungi are classified in the phylum Ascomycota and Basidiomycota and they are very important from an ecological and economic point of view. Most studies of fungi in Colombia have been carried out mainly in the Andean Region, especially in the Departments of Antioquia, Valle del Cauca and Cundinamarca. However, other Departments in the Andean Region, like Tolima, located in the Cordillera Central, are well documented for plants (4,797 species) and animals (2,983 species), but very poorly documented in terms of knowledge of fungal diversity. New information This study provides a compiled and annotated checklist of all known macrofungi in the Department of Tolima, based on published literature and on the identification of new specimens collected from five localities of the Department. All records were updated taxonomically and we include detailed information on the localities in which they are distributed in the Department. The list includes 164 taxa distributed in 15 orders (Agaricales, Polyporales, Russulales, Boletales, Hymenochaetales, Xylariales, Auriculariales, Thelephorales, Cantharellales, Hypocreales, Pezizales, Gloeophyllales, Phallales, Tremellales, Dacrymycetales) and eighteen records in a doubtful taxa section. We present 26 new reports, 19 for Tolima and nine for Colombia. We also provide genetic and phylogenetic evidence of the occurrence of Gloeoporustelephoroides and Podoscyphavenustula in Colombia. This checklist provides the basis for future studies on species diversity and taxonomy in Tolima, by identifying the least studied taxa and ecosystems and conservation priorities.
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- Cristian J Zambrano-Forero
- Grupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
- Grupo de Investigación en Química de Plantas Colombianas, Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Química de Plantas Colombianas, Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellínColombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
- Laboratorio Socio-jurídico en Creación e Innovación – IusLab. Universidad del Tolima. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Artes. Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, ColombiaLaboratorio Socio-jurídico en Creación e Innovación – IusLab. Universidad del Tolima. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Artes. Universidad del TolimaIbaguéColombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biología de Plantas y Microorganismos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 No, 100-00, Cali, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Biología de Plantas y Microorganismos, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 No, 100-00CaliColombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Inmunología y Patogénesis, Laboratorio Inmunología y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Inmunología y Patogénesis, Laboratorio Inmunología y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
- Grupo de Investigación en Avicultura, Laboratorio Inmunología y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Avicultura, Laboratorio Inmunología y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02, Ibagué, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación en Productos Naturales (GIPRONUT), Departamento de Química, Universidad del Tolima, Barrio Santa Helena Parte Alta Cl 42 1-02IbaguéColombia
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Liu Y, Chen S. Diversity and Distribution of Calonectria Species in Soils from Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis, Pinus massoniana, and Cunninghamia lanceolata Plantations in Four Provinces in Southern China. J Fungi (Basel) 2023; 9. [PMID: 36836312 DOI: 10.3390/jof9020198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The species of Calonectria include many notorious plant pathogens and are widely distributed around the world. Leaf blight caused by Calonectria species is considered one of the most prominent diseases in Eucalyptus plantations in China. Some Calonectria species isolated from soils in Eucalyptus plantations are highly pathogenic to inoculated Eucalyptus genotypes. In southern China, the plantation trees Cunninghamia lanceolata, Eucalyptus spp., and Pinus massoniana are always adjacently planted, especially in FuJian, GuangDong, GuangXi, and YunNan Provinces. The aim of this study was to understand the diversity and distribution of Calonectria in soils from plantations of different tree species in different geographic regions. Soil samples were collected from 12 sampling sites in Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis, P. massoniana, and C. lanceolata plantations in FuJian, GuangDong, GuangXi, and YunNan Provinces. Approximately 250 soil samples were collected from each sampling site, and a total of 2991 soil samples were obtained. A total of 1270 Calonectria isolates were obtained from 1270 soil samples. The 1270 isolates were identified based on DNA sequence comparisons of the partial gene regions of act, cmdA, his3, rpb2, tef1, and tub2. These isolates were identified as 11 Calonectria species: Calonectria aconidialis (69.50%), C. kyotensis (13.10%), C. hongkongensis (10.80%), C. ilicicola (2.50%), C. asiatica (2.36%), C. curvispora (0.31%), C. chinensis (0.24%), C. pacifica (0.24%), C. yunnanensis (0.16%), and C. canadiana (0.08%) in the C. kyotensis species complex and C. eucalypti (0.71%) in the C. colhounii species complex. The three dominant species, C. aconidialis, C. kyotensis, and C. hongkongensis, were widely distributed. The richness of Calonectria (percentage of soil samples that yielded Calonectria) in soils in the eastern regions (relatively humid regions) was higher than that in the western regions. The Calonectria richness of E. urophylla × E. grandis, P. massoniana, and C. lanceolata plantations decreased gradually. For each of the three dominant species, its richness in the eastern regions was generally higher than that in the western regions; the species richness was highest in E. urophylla × E. grandis plantations for C. aconidialis, while for each of C. kyotensis and C. hongkongensis, its species richness was highest in P. massoniana plantations. The genetic variation in C. aconidialis, C. kyotensis, and C. hongkongensis was more greatly affected by geographic region than by plantation tree species. This study expanded our understanding of the richness, species diversity, and distribution characteristics of Calonectria in soils from the plantations of different tree species in different geographic regions in southern China. Results in this study enhanced our understanding of the influencing characteristics of geographic region and tree species on the species and genetic diversity of soilborne fungi.
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Fungi have successfully established themselves across seemingly every possible niche, substrate, and biome. They are fundamental to biogeochemical cycling, interspecies interactions, food production, and drug bioprocessing, as well as playing less heroic roles as difficult to treat human infections and devastating plant pathogens. Despite community efforts to estimate and catalog fungal diversity, we have only named and described a minute fraction of the fungal world. The identification, characterization, and conservation of fungal diversity is paramount to preserving fungal bioresources, and to understanding and predicting ecosystem cycling and the evolution and epidemiology of fungal disease. Although species and ecosystem conservation are necessarily the foundation of preserving this diversity, there is value in expanding our definition of conservation to include the protection of biological collections, ecological metadata, genetic and genomic data, and the methods and code used for our analyses. These definitions of conservation are interdependent. For example, we need metadata on host specificity and biogeography to understand rarity and set priorities for conservation. To aid in these efforts, we need to draw expertise from diverse fields to tie traditional taxonomic knowledge to data obtained from modern -omics-based approaches, and support the advancement of diverse research perspectives. We also need new tools, including an updated framework for describing and tracking species known only from DNA, and the continued integration of functional predictions to link genetic diversity to functional and ecological diversity. Here, we review the state of fungal diversity research as shaped by recent technological advancements, and how changing viewpoints in taxonomy, -omics, and systematics can be integrated to advance mycological research and preserve fungal biodiversity.
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- Lotus A Lofgren
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Talas L, Stivrins N, Veski S, Tedersoo L, Kisand V. Sedimentary Ancient DNA (sedaDNA) Reveals Fungal Diversity and Environmental Drivers of Community Changes throughout the Holocene in the Present Boreal Lake Lielais Svētiņu (Eastern Latvia). Microorganisms 2021; 9:719. [PMID: 33807307 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9040719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Fungi are ecologically important in several ecosystem processes, yet their community composition, ecophysiological roles, and responses to changing environmental factors in historical sediments are rarely studied. Here we explored ancient fungal DNA from lake Lielais Svētiņu sediment throughout the Holocene (10.5 kyr) using the ITS metabarcoding approach. Our data revealed diverse fungal taxa and smooth community changes during most of the Holocene with rapid changes occurring in the last few millennia. More precisely, plankton parasitic fungi became more diverse from the Late Holocene (2–4 kyr) which could be related to a shift towards a cooler climate. The Latest Holocene (~2 kyr) showed a distinct increase in the richness of plankton parasites, mycorrhizal, and plant pathogenic fungi which can be associated with an increased transfer rate of plant material into the lake and blooms of planktonic organisms influenced by increased, yet moderate, human impact. Thus, major community shifts in plankton parasites and mycorrhizal fungi could be utilized as potential paleo-variables that accompany host-substrate dynamics. Our work demonstrates that fungal aDNA with predicted ecophysiology and host specificity can be employed to reconstruct both aquatic and surrounding terrestrial ecosystems and to estimate the influence of environmental change.
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Martorelli I, Helwerda LS, Kerkvliet J, Gomes SIF, Nuytinck J, van der Werff CRA, Ramackers GJ, Gultyaev AP, Merckx VSFT, Verbeek FJ. Fungal metabarcoding data integration framework for the MycoDiversity DataBase (MDDB). J Integr Bioinform 2020; 17:jib-2019-0046. [PMID: 32463383 PMCID: PMC7734503 DOI: 10.1515/jib-2019-0046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Fungi have crucial roles in ecosystems, and are important associates for many organisms. They are adapted to a wide variety of habitats, however their global distribution and diversity remains poorly documented. The exponential growth of DNA barcode information retrieved from the environment is assisting considerably the traditional ways for unraveling fungal diversity and detection. The raw DNA data in association to environmental descriptors of metabarcoding studies are made available in public sequence read archives. While this is potentially a valuable source of information for the investigation of Fungi across diverse environmental conditions, the annotation used to describe environment is heterogenous. Moreover, a uniform processing pipeline still needs to be applied to the available raw DNA data. Hence, a comprehensive framework to analyses these data in a large context is still lacking. We introduce the MycoDiversity DataBase, a database which includes public fungal metabarcoding data of environmental samples for the study of biodiversity patterns of Fungi. The framework we propose will contribute to our understanding of fungal biodiversity and aims to become a valuable source for large-scale analyses of patterns in space and time, in addition to assisting evolutionary and ecological research on Fungi.
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- Irene Martorelli
- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Understanding Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Understanding Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Understanding Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Understanding Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Understanding Evolution, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Lynikienė J, Marčiulynienė D, Marčiulynas A, Gedminas A, Vaičiukynė M, Menkis A. Managed and Unmanaged Pinus sylvestris Forest Stands Harbour Similar Diversity and Composition of the Phyllosphere and Soil Fungi. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E259. [PMID: 32075257 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8020259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The aim was to assess fungal communities associated with living needles and soil of Pinus sylvestris in managed and unmanaged forest stands to get a better understanding of whether and how different intensities of forest management affects fungal diversity and community composition under the north temperate forest zone conditions. The study was carried out in three national parks in Lithuania. Each included five study sites in managed stands and five in unmanaged stands. At each site, three random soil cores and five random last-year needle samples were collected. Following DNA isolation, a DNA fragment of the ITS2 rRNA gene region of each sample was individually amplified and subjected to high-throughput sequencing. Analysis of 195,808 high-quality reads showed the presence of 1909 fungal taxa. Richness and composition of fungal taxa were similar in each substrate (needles and soil) in managed vs. unmanaged sites. The most common fungi in needles were Coleosporium campanulae (12.4% of all fungal sequences), Unidentified sp. 3980_1 (12.4%), Unidentified sp. 3980_4 (4.1%) and Sydowia polyspora (3.1%). In soil: Unidentified sp. 3980_21 (8.6%), Umbelopsis nana (8.2%), Archaeorhizomyces sp. 3980_5 (8.1%) and Penicillium spinulosum (6.3%). The results demonstrated that managed and unmanaged P. sylvestris stands support similar diversity and composition of fungal communities associated with living needles and soil.
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Sanitá Lima M, Coutinho de Lucas R, Lima N, Polizeli MDLTDM, Santos C. Fungal Community Ecology Using MALDI-TOF MS Demands Curated Mass Spectral Databases. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:315. [PMID: 30873137 PMCID: PMC6401475 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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- Matheus Sanitá Lima
- Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.,Biology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- Biology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
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- CEB - Biological Engineering Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Chemical Science and Natural Resources, BIOREN-UFRO, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
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Cripps CL, Eberhardt U, Schütz N, Beker HJ, Vera S Evenson, Horak E. The genus Hebeloma in the Rocky Mountain Alpine Zone. MycoKeys 2019:1-54. [PMID: 30787668 PMCID: PMC6379322 DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.46.32823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Numerous taxa of Hebeloma have been reported in association with Salix, Dryas, and Betula in arctic-alpine habitats. However, species are notoriously difficult to delineate because morphological features overlap, and previously there was little reliable molecular data available. Recent progress in ITS-sequencing within the genus, coupled with an extensive database of parametrically described collections, now allows comparisons between species and their distributions. Here we report 16 species of Hebeloma from the Rocky Mountain alpine zone from some of the lowest latitudes (latitude 36°–45°N) and highest elevations (3000–4000 m) for arctic-alpine fungi in the northern hemisphere. Twelve of these species have been reported from arctic-alpine habitats in Europe and Greenland and are now molecularly confirmed from the Middle and Southern Rockies, greatly expanding their distribution. These are: Hebelomaalpinum, H.aurantioumbrinum, H.dunense, H.hiemale, H.marginatulum, H.mesophaeum, H.nigellum, H.oreophilum, H.subconcolor, H.spetsbergense, H.vaccinum, and H.velutipes. Hebelomahygrophilum is known from subalpine habitats in Europe, but was never recorded in arctic-alpine ecology. Three species recorded from the Rockies, but as yet not reported from Europe, are H.alpinicola, H.avellaneum, and H.excedens. The last two have never previously been reported from an arctic-alpine habitat. For all three of these species, the holotypes have been studied morphologically and molecularly, and have been incorporated into the analysis.
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- Cathy L Cripps
- Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, 119 Plant Biosciences Bldg, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
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- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Rue Père de Deken 19, B-1040 Bruxelles, Belgium; Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom; Plantentuin Meise, Nieuwelaan 38, B-1860 Meise, Belgium
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- Sam Mitchel Herbarium of Fungi, Denver Botanic Garden, 909 York Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
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- Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6th floor, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Anslan S, Nilsson RH, Wurzbacher C, Baldrian P, Leho Tedersoo, Bahram M. Great differences in performance and outcome of high-throughput sequencing data analysis platforms for fungal metabarcoding. MycoKeys 2018; 39:29-40. [PMID: 30271256 PMCID: PMC6160831 DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.39.28109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Along with recent developments in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and thus fast accumulation of HTS data, there has been a growing need and interest for developing tools for HTS data processing and communication. In particular, a number of bioinformatics tools have been designed for analysing metabarcoding data, each with specific features, assumptions and outputs. To evaluate the potential effect of the application of different bioinformatics workflow on the results, we compared the performance of different analysis platforms on two contrasting high-throughput sequencing data sets. Our analysis revealed that the computation time, quality of error filtering and hence output of specific bioinformatics process largely depends on the platform used. Our results show that none of the bioinformatics workflows appears to perfectly filter out the accumulated errors and generate Operational Taxonomic Units, although PipeCraft, LotuS and PIPITS perform better than QIIME2 and Galaxy for the tested fungal amplicon dataset. We conclude that the output of each platform requires manual validation of the OTUs by examining the taxonomy assignment values.
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- Sten Anslan
- Braunschweig University of Technology, Zoological Institute, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Videnska 1083, 14220 Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Natural History Museum of Tartu University, 14a Ravila, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Science, Tartu University, 14a Ravila, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Organismal Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18D, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls väg 16, 756 51 Uppsala, Sweden
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Oliveri C, Bella P, Tessitori M, Catara V, La Rosa R. Grape and environmental mycoflora monitoring in old, traditionally cultivated vineyards on Mount Etna, southern Italy. J Sci Food Agric 2017; 97:65-73. [PMID: 26916978 DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.7683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 02/11/2016] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Grape contamination by several fungal species occurs during a vineyard's preharvest and harvest. Agronomic management and microclimatic conditions can affect fungi occurrence and epidemiology, thus explaining qualitative differences in mycoflora composition, including the presence of phytopathogenic or mycotoxigenic fungi. In this study a two-year grape, air and soil mycoflora monitoring programme was undertaken in vineyards on Mount Etna (eastern Sicily, Italy). The mycoflora composition was investigated at pea berry and veraison phenological phases from air and soil and at ripening from sample grapes. RESULTS Mycoflora in air and soil varied according to the phenological stage. In the air samples, penicillia were dominant over aspergilli at the pea berry phase, but their ratio was inverted at early veraison. Black aspergilli (BA) were isolated from the vine environment and grape samples, where BA were represented mainly by Aspergillus niger aggregate, which showed no or low ochratoxin A (OTA) production. Aspergillus carbonarius was either not identified or identified at low frequency, although most of the isolates produced OTA. CONCLUSION Monitoring focused on the environmental mycoflora composition and highlighted the good health profile of various Sicilian autochthonous grape cultivars. In addition, data suggest that the lower relative humidity occurring at the highest altitudes reduces BA incidence. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Cinzia Oliveri
- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Santa Sofia 100, I-95123 Catania, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Santa Sofia 100, I-95123 Catania, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Santa Sofia 100, I-95123 Catania, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Santa Sofia 100, I-95123 Catania, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Santa Sofia 100, I-95123 Catania, Italy
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Lunghini D, Granito VM, Di Lonardo DP, Maggi O, Persiani AM. Fungal diversity of saprotrophic litter fungi in a Mediterranean maquis environment. Mycologia 2013; 105:1499-515. [PMID: 23921238 DOI: 10.3852/13-103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Monospecific and mixed-leaf litters from plant species of Mediterranean maquis (Quercus ilex, Phillyrea angustifolia, Pistacia lentiscus, Cistus spp.) in an undisturbed area in southern Italy were studied with respect to the structure and composition of their decomposer fungal community over an incubation period of 403 d. The data matrix structure was analyzed by means of detrended correspondence analysis (DCA), while indicator species analysis (ISA) was used to determine the preferential association of species with a substrate, a succession phase and monospecific/mixed experimental conditions. The ecological nature of the gradient expressed by the DCA axes was investigated by means of experimental and main chemical leaf-litter variables. The litter mixture had non-additive effects on the decomposition process even though the fungal species richness of the mixed litter was considerably higher than that of the monospecific litter. Our findings highlight the occurrence of shifts in the fungal community during decomposition in response to changes in the substrate, such as those related to the cellulose content and lignin/N ratio.
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- D Lunghini
- Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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Cruywagen EM, de Beer ZW, Roux J, Wingfield MJ. Three new Graphium species from baobab trees in South Africa and Madagascar. Persoonia 2010; 25:61-71. [PMID: 21339967 DOI: 10.3767/003158510X550368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2010] [Accepted: 11/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Baobabs (Adansonia spp.) are iconic trees, known for their immense size, strange forms, sources of food and as the subjects of myths and mysteries. It is thus surprising that little is known regarding the fungi that infect these trees. During a survey to determine which wound infecting fungi occur on baobabs, synnematous structures were observed and Graphium-like isolates were obtained. Culture characteristics and micro-morphology, together with DNA sequence comparisons for the SSU rRNA, rRNA-ITS and TEF-1α gene regions were used to characterise these fungi. These data revealed three novel Graphium spp. and these are described as G. adansoniae, G. madagascariense and G. fabiforme.
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• Variation in endophytic fungal diversity closely associated with roots, stems and leaves of common reed (Phragmites australis) is reported here at sites with different oxygen conditions. • Fungi isolated from surface-sterilized reed tissue were identified and characterized by morphological and molecular methods including internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence analysis from two dry and two flooded sites at Lake Constance (Germany). • Most isolates were ascomycetes, some basidiomycetes. There were differences in distribution between dry and flooded sites. Trichoderma sp. and Cylindrocarpon sp. were almost exclusively recovered from roots of reed growing at dry sites, whereas Microdochium sp. and Cladosporum sp. were more frequently found at flooded sites. The preference of Trichoderma sp. for drier sites was confirmed by a nested PCR assay targeting the variable ITS region. • A diverse assemblage of endophytic fungi that differ in distribution between aerated and nonaerated soils is found in reed habitats. The rich mycoflora associated with roots in completely anaerobic soils might depend on downward oxygen transport via an aerenchyma-based ventilation system.
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- Stefan G R Wirsel
- Lehrstuhl für Phytopathologie, Fachbereich für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätstr. 10, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Phytopathologie, Fachbereich für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätstr. 10, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Phytopathologie, Fachbereich für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätstr. 10, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl für Phytopathologie, Fachbereich für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Universitätstr. 10, D-78434 Konstanz, Germany
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