Various mushrooms have been used as folk medicine for long times, the higher Basidiomycetes have become a matter of great interest due to their diverse nutritional, medicinal, and pharmacological properties. 650 species and intraspecific taxa from 182 genera of higher Hetero- and Homo-basidiomycetes have been listed that contain biological active anti-tumor and immunostimulative polysaccharides...

Various mushrooms have been used as folk medicine for long times, the higher Basidiomycetes have become a matter of great interest due to their diverse nutritional, medicinal, and pharmacological properties. 650 species and intraspecific taxa from 182 genera of higher Hetero- and Homo-basidiomycetes have been listed that contain biological active anti-tumor and immunostimulative polysaccharides...

N various fungi genetically marked nuclei implanted in a mycelium can be Irecovered centimeters from the point of implantation after an interval of hours or days. The transport of such nuclei (or their mitotic progeny) could occur by the dispersal of spores, by the intrusive growth of new hyphae, by the migration of whole nuclei through pre-existing hyphae, or by other means. In fact, such tran...

Competition is the most common type of interaction occurring between wood-decaying higher fungi. Since competition for nutrients in organic resources is effectively brought about by competition for space, the common division into interference and exploitation competition is not very appropriate. Fungal competition can be divided into primary resource capture (obtaining uncolonized resources) an...

An Amber MPH-Cerelose medium was devised on which the unidentified basidiomycete B 191039 produced high titers of alcohol oxidase in shake cultures. Another, fully synthetic medium was developed on which the production was nearly as good, but very slow. No cofactors were required to produce this flavine adenine dinucleotide-containing enzyme. The B 191039 organism underwent frequent mutations. ...