Auricularia polytricha (Mont.) Sacc., a type of edible black-brown mushroom with a gelatinous and modality-specific fruiting body, is in high demand in Asia due to its nutritional and medicinal properties. Illumina Solexa sequenceing technology was used to generate very large transcript sequences from the mycelium and the mature fruiting body of A. polytricha for gene discovery and molecular ma...

Mushroom-forming fungi (Agaricomycetes, approx. syn.: Homobasidiomycetes) produce a diverse array of fruiting bodies, ranging from simple crust-like forms to complex, developmentally integrated forms, such as stinkhorns and veiled agarics. The 19th century Friesian system divided the mushroom-forming fungi according to macromorphology. The Friesian taxonomy has long been regarded as artificial,...

General Practitioner (Rtd.), Westbury-on-Trym When we speak, loosely, of the structures we call mushrooms and toadstools, we refer to the fruiting bodies of fungi. Fungi, unlike green plants which absorb carbon dioxide from the air, obtain their nutrients by breaking down the tissues of wood, leaves, roots or, occasionally, animals, either living or dead. Essentially, fungi consist of ramifying...

Roy Halling has served as a PI on several prior NSF grants, the most recent of which is “Macrofungi of Costa Rica”, a collaborative project between REH and G. M. Mueller (DEB 9972018, $165,800, Sept. 1999-Aug. 2003). This work began as a biotic survey of “The Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus Forests” funded by NSF and U.S.A.I.D. (DEB 9300798 with subcontract to NYBG, $62,065, May 1993-April 19...

(2793) Hebeloma velutipes Bruchet in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon 39 (6, Suppl.): 127. Jun 1970, nom. cons. prop. Typus: France, Les Echets (Ain) (ca. 45.86°N; 04.90°E; alt. ca. 280 m), on clayey soil deciduous woodland under Corylus avellana, 24 Sep 1963, (LY No. BR63-20). (=) bakeri Earle New York Bot. Gard. 2: 342. Apr 1902, rej. U.S.A., California, Stanford Univ., Quercus, 4 Dec 1901, Baker ...