MycologyPub Date : 2024-08-27eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2024.2379480
Mohamed A Hussein, Youssuf A Gherbawy, Mahmoud S Abd El-Sadek, Helal F Al-Harthi, Eman Gam El-Dawy
{"title":"Phylogeny of <i>Aspergillus</i> section <i>Circumdati</i> and inhibition of ochratoxins potential by green synthesised ZnO nanoparticles.","authors":"Mohamed A Hussein, Youssuf A Gherbawy, Mahmoud S Abd El-Sadek, Helal F Al-Harthi, Eman Gam El-Dawy","doi":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2379480","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2379480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contamination of agricultural and industrial products by <i>Aspergillus</i> section <i>Circumdati</i> becomes a true problem, especially, because a lot of species in this section can yield ochratoxins and other toxins. In this study, morphological criteria and partial calmodulin gene were used to identify 34 strains belonging to <i>Aspergillus</i> section <i>Circumdati</i> isolated from <i>Vitis vinifera</i> and <i>Calotropis procera</i> plants. The population is characterised by <i>A</i>. <i>insulicola</i>, <i>A</i>. <i>ochraceopetaliformis</i>, <i>A</i>. <i>ochraceus</i>, and <i>A</i>. <i>pseudoelegans</i>. The polyketide synthase (<i>pks</i>) gene involved in ochratoxins (OTA) production was investigated by <i>Aopks</i>1, 2 and <i>AoLc</i>35-12L, R primers. Fifteen strains belonging to <i>A</i>. <i>ochraceus</i> were positive for <i>pks</i> gene, whilst <i>A</i>. <i>insulicola</i>, <i>A</i>. <i>ochraceopetaliformis</i>, and <i>A</i>. <i>pseudoelegans</i> were negative. All tested strains were able to produce ochratoxin A with different levels of 0.020-53 ppm except one isolate of <i>A</i>. <i>ochraceus</i> (IAEMAo6). The green synthesised ZnO-NPs have a significant inhibitory effect on OTA production by <i>A. insulicola</i> and <i>A</i>. <i>pseudoelegans</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18833,"journal":{"name":"Mycology","volume":"16 2","pages":"891-902"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12096659/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity of macrofungi in southeast Xizang 1. The wood-decay fungi.","authors":"Yu-Jin Cui, Ying-Da Wu, Yu-Han Jiang, An-Hong Zhu, Fang Wu, Hong-Gao Liu, Yu-Cheng Dai, Yuan Yuan","doi":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2379476","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2379476","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A survey on the diversity of wood-decay fungi in southeast Xizang was carried out from 2019 to 2023. Based on morphology, ecology, biogeography, and molecular biology, 558 species, belonging to three classes, 15 orders, 57 families, and 177 genera, were identified. One new species, <i>Epithele miscanthi</i>, is described. Species composition analysis showed that there were fifteen dominant families with more than 10 species. These families include 459 species, accounting for 82.26% of the total species found. Thirty-three genera with five or more species are treated as dominant genera, and 325 species were included in these genera, accounting for 58.24% of the total species. Among these, 313 species (56.09%) occurred on angiosperm wood only, 168 species (30.11%) on gymnosperm wood only, 45 species (8.06%) on both angiosperm and gymnosperm wood, 17 species (3.05%) on monocotyledons only, and only one species, <i>Hymenochaete rheicolor</i>, grew on both monocotyledons and dicotyledons. The highest number of species, 266 (47.67%), were found on fallen trunks, followed by fallen branches, rotten wood, stumps, dead standing trees, living trees, and charred wood with 175, 123, 116, 82, 57, and 4 species, respectively. In addition, 456 species cause a white rot and 85 species cause a brown rot, accounting for 81.72% and 15.23% of our studied species, respectively. Statistics were also made on the rotting type and the number of edible or medicinal fungi.</p>","PeriodicalId":18833,"journal":{"name":"Mycology","volume":"16 2","pages":"635-669"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12096656/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MycologyPub Date : 2024-08-22eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/21501203.2024.2378071
Marjorie Cedeño-Sanchez, Christopher Lambert, Luis C Mejia, Sherif S Ebada, Marc Stadler
{"title":"Chemotaxonomic and molecular phylogenetic studies of selected <i>Hypoxylon</i> species from the Neotropics.","authors":"Marjorie Cedeño-Sanchez, Christopher Lambert, Luis C Mejia, Sherif S Ebada, Marc Stadler","doi":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2378071","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2378071","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Members of the genus <i>Hypoxylon</i> (Ascomycota) are pleomorphic fungi mostly forming conspicuous teleomorphs, consisting of perithecia embedded into stromal tissue, and their morphology has traditionally served for species delineation. However, analysis in tandem with other phenotypic characters, such as chemical and genetic traits, proved to be a more stable predictor of interspecies and intergeneric relationships. During 2014 and 2015, a set of species identified as <i>Hypoxylon</i> were described from the Neotropics, exclusively relying on morphological traits. The secondary metabolite profiles of their stromata were analysed by HPLC/DAD-ESI-MS, corroborating their classification within Xylariales. Additionally, molecular data for ex-type strains of <i>H. dussii</i> and <i>H. sofaiense</i> were incorporated into an inferred molecular phylogeny of the Hypoxylaceae and allies. Furthermore, a freshly collected specimen from North Carolina was selected as epitype of <i>Sphaeria perforata</i> Schweinitz (syn. <i>Hypoxylon perforatum</i>), as its morphological/chemotaxonomic characters matched those of the holotype. Our findings demonstrate that the secondary metabolism of <i>Hypoxylon</i> closely correlates with both morphological features and molecular data, serving as a complement for species identification.</p>","PeriodicalId":18833,"journal":{"name":"Mycology","volume":"16 1","pages":"250-265"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11899249/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Harposporium incensis</i> sp. nov. a South American cordycipitoid species exhibiting inter-phylum host-jumping and having potential as a biological control agent for pest management.","authors":"Ming-Jun Chen, López-Juan Chavez, Jin-Yuan Kang, Jiang-Xin Hu, Jian-Fei Dong, You-Jiu Tan, Zhu-An Chen, Bo Huang, Chun-Ru Li, Chang-Sheng Sun, Nigel Hywel-Jones, Xing-Zhong Liu, Zeng-Zhi Li","doi":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2350959","DOIUrl":"10.1080/21501203.2024.2350959","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Macro- and microscopic morphological studies and multilocus phylogenetic analysis were made on larval specimens of a ghost moth collected from a pigeon pea plantation in Huánuco, Peru. DNA sequences from the cadaver and the fungal isolates obtained represented a monophyletic clade based on the phylogeny. All morphological characters and molecular data showed that the pathogenic fungus infecting the ghost moth larvae was an unknown cordycipitoid species, herein described as, <i>Harposporium incensis</i> sp. nov. based on morphological features and multilocus phylogenetic analysis on the cadaver and fungus isolated from the same specimen. The far-related and ecologically different hosts of teleomorph and anamorph of this new species display a peculiar inter-phylum host jumping between the insect <i>Trichophassus giganteus</i> of the phylum Arthropoda and the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> of the phylum Nematoda and have biological control potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":18833,"journal":{"name":"Mycology","volume":"16 1","pages":"238-249"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11899238/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143624673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}