A growing body of molecular research is discovering a high diversity of pezizalean ectomycorrhiza (EcM), yet most remain unidentified at the genus or species level. This study describes EcM-forming taxa within the Pezizales. EcM-forming Pezizales were revealed by morphotyping and sequencing of EcM root tips from forests in Estonia and Denmark. The taxa on EcM root tips were identified using phy...

Fungi pursuing the truffle strategy by producing underground fruiting bodies have long been recognized as an artificial group with representatives in Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota. Those producing asci (a saclike structure where the spores are produced) were at one time all placed in the order Tuberales (Ascomycota) (e.g. from Tulasne & Tulasne 1851 to Korf 1973). Similarities betwee...

This study presents a checklist of the species belonging to order Pezizales, determined in Türkiye. The list includes 264 81 genera and 15 families. In list, current name species, distributions Türkiye (at province level), literature related obtained data are provided.

The alignment of the 28S gene of several species of Pezizales allowed to select two pairs of primers able to amplify the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA in mycorrhizal fungi, such as truffles. The higher yield of the amplification product demonstrates a better annealing of the new primers to the rDNA, as compared to the universal primers internal transcribed spacer 1 and int...

Cotton root rot is an important soilborne disease of cotton and numerous dicot plants in the south-western United States and Mexico. The causal organism, Phymatotrichopsis omnivora (= Phymatotrichum omnivorum), is known only as an asexual, holoanamorphic (mitosporic) fungus, and produces conidia resembling those of Botrytis. Although the corticoid basidiomycetes Phanerochaete omnivora (Polypora...