There is strong community-wide interest in applying molecular techniques to fungal species delimitation and identification, but selection of a standardized region or regions of the genome has not been finalized. A single marker, the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region, has frequently been suggested as the standard for fungi. We used a group of closely related blue stain fungi assoc...

English walnut (Juglans regia) has become an important crop in Chile, representing 11.5% of the total area fruit trees, surpassed only by grapevine. As Chilean industry rapidly expands, young orchards are at risk from emergence new fungal diseases. Botryosphaeriaceae and Diaporthaceae fungi have been recognized as main causes wood diseases walnut, with symptoms dieback, canker, blight. In winte...

Fungi are ubiquitous and their spores found in the air outside within built environment. We investigated fungal species present a teaching laboratory at Shepherd University. Airborne fungi were captured passively three sites on two different culture media. Viable isolated to pure then identified by DNA barcode using internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA. Twenty-four isolates order...

Fungal endophytes colonize living internal plant tissues without causing any visible symptoms of disease. Endophytic fungi associated with healthy leaves may play an important role in the protection of hosts against herbivores and pathogens. In this study, the diversity of foliar endophytic fungi (FEF) of the southern temperate tree Embothrium coccineum (Proteaceae), as well as their role in pl...

The vast majority of plants obtain an important proportion of vital resources from soil through mycorrhizal fungi. Generally, this happens in exchange of photosynthetically fixed carbon, but occasionally the interaction is mycoheterotrophic, and plants obtain carbon from mycorrhizal fungi. This process results in an antagonistic interaction between mycoheterotrophic plants and their fungal host...

Infestations by the weedy perennial plant Lantana camara L. (lantana) cause major disruptions to biodiversity; however, the effects of lantana on soil fungal communities are poorly understood, yet may interrupt important mutualisms in natural and semi-natural ecosystems. This research is aimed at understanding the impacts of lantana on the soil fungal community of five sites on contrasting soil...

We investigated changes in the root-associated fungal communities associated with the ectomycorrhizal herb Bistorta vivipara along a primary succession gradient using 454 amplicon sequencing. Our main objective was to assess the degree of variation in fungal richness and community composition as vegetation cover increases along the chronosequence. Sixty root systems of B. vivipara were sampled ...

Fungal biodeterioration of artworks on paper and historic documents results from complex interactions of heterogenous cellular materials with living systems. The biodeterioration of paper is manifested by prominent staining and structural polymer degradation of paper by fungal enzymatic activities. Pigmentation produced by fungi results from their complex bio-chemical processed within their cel...