Our review includes a genomic survey of multitude reactive oxygen species (ROS) related intra- and extracellular enzymes proteins among fungi Basidiomycota, following their taxonomic classification within the systematic classes orders, focusing on different fungal lifestyles (saprobic, symbiotic, pathogenic). Intra- ROS metabolism-involved (49 protein families, summing 4170 models) were searche...

A growing number of molecular studies show that many fungi have phylogeographic structures and that their distinct lineages are usually limited to different continents. As a conservative test of the extent to which wind-dispersed mycorrhizal fungi may exhibit phylogeographic structure, we chose to study Amanita muscaria, a host-generalist, widespread, wind-dispersed fungus. In this paper, we do...

We report the case of a young man who developed severe asthma a few months after starting work in a factory producing a single type of mushroom: Pleurotus cornucopiae (a basidiomycete). Immunological investigations, performed with material recovered from the filtering devices of the mushroom's bed, led to demonstration of specific IgE and IgG against spore extracts and to isolation of one discr...

Six new tremulane sesquiterpenes, conocenol A-D (2-5), conocenolide A (6), and conocenolide B (7), have been isolated from cultures of the basidiomycete Conocybe siliginea. The structures of 2-7 were elucidated by the analysis of spectroscopic data, including heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation, heteronuclear single-quantum coherence, and (1)H,(1)H correlation spectroscopy, and a comparison...

Contribution of fungi to primary biogenic aerosols in the atmosphere: active discharge of spores, carbohydrates, and inorganic ions by Ascoand Basidiomycota W. Elbert, P. E. Taylor, M. O. Andreae, and U. Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 9...

Taxonomy of Spongipellis sensu stricto is revised based on morphological studies and DNA data. Here, the genus accepted as a member Meripilaceae, it contains five species. Of them, S. spumea, generic type, occurs in Europe, two species, ambiens (= Tyromyces sibiricus) variispora sp. nov., are found East Asia, profissilis comb. reported from Central Siberia Far Asia. The North-American occidenta...