ABSTRACT Pseudosclerotia were evaluated for differences in timing of apothecium development in four controlled experiments conducted over a 2-year period. In a separate experiment, conidia from 10 randomly selected isolates from both of the fungal populations were used to inoculate open flowers. Germination of pseudosclerotia produced from these artificial inoculations also was evaluated. The t...

ABSTRACT The germination of field-collected pseudosclerotia and the development of apothecia from eight New Jersey populations of the mummy berry fungus Monilinia vaccinii-corymbosi were evaluated under controlled conditions in the greenhouse. Development data for apothecia were used to describe the timing of apothecium formation and to estimate broad- and narrow-sense heritabilities of fungal ...

Botrytis cinerea is a plant-pathogenic fungus producing apothecia as sexual fruiting bodies. To study the function of mating type (MAT) genes, single-gene deletion mutants were generated in both genes of the MAT1-1 locus and both genes of the MAT1-2 locus. Deletion mutants in two MAT genes were entirely sterile, while mutants in the other two MAT genes were able to develop stipes but never form...

in order to study the primary inoculum source, apothecium production, as well as overwintering of monilinia laxa, the causal agent of sweet cherry brown rot, this study was carried out in guilan province during 2005-2006. apothecium production by the fungus was investigated under natural and laboratory conditions. the mummified fruits collected in early october didn't produce apothecia und...

Three species of lichens are described as new from the Chapada dos Guimarães in Mato Grosso (Brazil): Astrothelium muriconicum Aptroot & M.F.Souza, sp. nov. which is first core group genus, A. conicum-group, with muriform ascospores; Gassicurtia lopesiana M.F.Souza Aptroot, characterized by red apothecium margins and lichexanthone thallus; G. pruinosa has brown pruinose, UV+ green discs less pi...

Rinodina is a lichenized fungal genus belonging to the Physciaceae, with c. 300 species worldwide. Nearly century ago, Zahlbruckner described five of from Southwest China. The type collections were only records for these species. In present study, new four species: cornutula, R. globulans, handelii, and setschwana, recently species, pluriloculata, are documented based on specimens collected hol...

Four species of wood inhabiting cup fungi belonging to order Helotiales are reported for the first time in Iran. Species are described and illustrated with photographs and drawings. Three genera Arachnopeziza, Hymenoscyphus and Lachnum are new records for Iran.