The data on locations, habitats and vegetation season of 205 species agaricoid basidiomycetes new for the Karakol natural park UchEnmek (Altai Republic) are presented. They were collected in steppe, forest, forest-steppe highland belts. Among them 32 recorded first time Altai Republic, 6 rare Republic Western Siberia.

Although current interest in basidiomycete fungi is focused mainly on taxonomy and exploitation of selected species in environmental biotechnology, isolation and characterization of their nucleic acids is becoming still more and more important for many purposes. Differences in cell wall composition and the mode of growth of some basidiomycetes are the major limitations for utilization of common...

In the present study, six species of Basidiomycetes all belonging to the genus Agaricus are reported for the first time from Iran along with details of macroscopic and microscopic characteristics. Six species are as follows: Agaricus campestris, A. lalage, A. nigrovinosus, A. nivescens, A. purpurellus and A. silvaticus.

The potential of wood-rotting and litter-deconstructing basidiomycetes to convert lignocellulose into a wide variety products has been extensively studied. In particular, basidiomycete secretomes are attracting much attention from researchers biotechnology companies due their ability produce extracellular hydrolytic oxidative enzymes that effectively degrade cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin pla...