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{"title":"Gohteikhimyces, a novel hyphomycete genus from submerged wood, based on three collections in Taiwan","authors":"Jie-Hao Ou, Sung-Yuan Hsieh, Chang-Hsin Kuo","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01985-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01985-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Gohteikhimyces</i>, a new genus of dematiaceous hyphomycetes occurring on decaying wood submerged in a freshwater stream of Taiwan, is proposed based on morphological and molecular data. It is characterized by effuse, black, and somewhat glistening colonies on the surface of natural substratum, which are mainly composed of solitary, dry, dark, cymbiform, or ellipsoidal to obovoid, 3–4-euseptate conidia. The conidia secede rhexolytically from semi-macronematous conidiophores with percurrent regeneration. The conidia resemble those of <i>Bactrodesmium</i> species, but they are not produced from sporodochial conidiomata. Phylogenetically, this new genus is placed in the <i>Savoryellomycetidae</i> incertae sedis, closely related to <i>Flammispora</i>, but is distant from the <i>Fucosporellales</i> which contains the <i>Bactrodesmium</i> species. This new genus is proposed based on three collections from different localities in Taiwan, with descriptions of two novel species, <i>G. bactrodesmioides</i> and <i>G. tarooides</i>, which differ in conidial morphology. The two species are supported by sufficient differences in their LSU, SSU, and the ITS sequences. In this paper, the genus <i>Gohteikhimyces</i> is illustrated with light micrographs and scanning electron micrographs.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141867002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Elucidation of the life cycle of a saprotrophic inoperculate discomycete that is associated with pinesap using a polyphasic taxonomic approach","authors":"Özge Demir, Yanpeng Chen, Christopher Lambert, Anja Schüffler, Frank Surup, Marc Stadler","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01978-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01978-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study deals with the elucidation of the life cycle of an inoperculate discomycete that was eventually collected from conifer wood in South Germany and has become famous for the extraordinary diversity of its secondary metabolites when it was studied extensively during the 1990s. It had then been identified as <i>Lachnum papyraceum</i> (<i>Lachnaceae</i>, <i>Helotiales</i>) based on morphological traits, and extracts from its mycelial cultures were found to possess extraordinary nematicidal and antibiotic activities. Over 60 different secondary metabolites were finally identified from this fungus after extensive variation of culture media and scale-up of production up to 100-L scale. Among the main active principles were mycorrhizin A and chloromycorrhizin A, which had first been reported in 1977 from an unnamed “mycorrhizal” fungus of the hemiparasitic plant, <i>Monotropa hypopitys</i> (pinesap), that was isolated in Sweden. We noted that both the <i>Lachnum</i> strain and the original mycorrhizin producer were still available in the public domain and decided to study them for comparison using a multilocus phylogeny and also generated secondary metabolite profiles of both strains using analytical high performance liquid chromatography coupled to diode array and mass spectrometric detection (HPLC–DAD/MS). Surprisingly, the sequence data as well as the secondary metabolite profiles of both strains were highly similar, and it was also confirmed by phylogenetic methods that the strains are indeed nested within the genus <i>Lachnum</i> by comparison of their ITS, LSU, and <i>RPB2</i> sequences. The specimen called <i>L. papyraceum</i> in the old publications was tentatively re-identified by Hans-Otto Baral as <i>L</i>. cf. <i>subvirgineum</i>, but substantial further work on the taxonomy of the genus remains to be done, anyway. We conclude that some <i>Lachnum</i> species have a highly complex but all the more interesting life cycle, and the mycorrhizal symbiont partner may invade the host plant, where it may persist as an endophyte and finally turn saprotrophic on the wood of the senescent pine tree. The taxonomy of these fungi should also be further resolved in the future, using a polythetic concept that includes chemotaxonomic data and a multi-locus genealogy.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141718835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diversity of Kordyana species (Brachybasidaceae) on Commelinaceae in Australia","authors":"Isabel Zeil-Rolfe, Ben Gooden, Gavin C. Hunter, Celeste C. Linde, Roger G. Shivas","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01981-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01981-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The identity and diversity of <i>Kordyana</i> species on three native species of <i>Commelinaceae</i> in Australia were studied following surveys in 2020–2022 for <i>Kordyana brasiliensis</i>, which had been deliberately released as a biocontrol agent for the environmental weed <i>Tradescantia fluminensis</i>. Three new species of <i>Kordyana</i> are described from Australia based on DNA sequence analysis of the ITS and LSU rDNA regions, morphology, host associations, and geographic distributions. Two new species, <i>Kordyana spectabilis</i> on <i>Aneilema acuminatum</i> and <i>Kordyana luteoalba</i> on <i>Pollia crispata</i>, occur in shaded rainforest habitats in eastern Australia. The third new species, <i>Kordyana occidentalis</i> on <i>Commelina ensifolia</i>, occurs in forests and woodlands of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Morphological descriptions are provided for these three new species of <i>Kordyana</i> as well as for the conidial stage of <i>K. brasiliensis</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"2011 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The CRZ-1 transcription factor binds to specific sequences in the promoters of al-2, cao-2, and ylo-1 to regulate the expression of these carotenoid biosynthesis genes in Neurospora crassa","authors":"Ajeet Kumar, Ranjan Tamuli","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01973-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01973-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The calcineurin-CRZ-1 signaling pathway regulates the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway in <i>Neurospora crassa</i>. The expression of different carotenoid biosynthesis genes <i>al-1</i>, <i>al-2</i>, <i>al-3</i>, <i>cao-2</i>, and <i>ylo-1</i> was downregulated in the <i>Cna-1</i>^RIP mutants. Additionally, the repression of <i>cna-1</i>, <i>cnb-1</i>, and <i>crz-1</i> causes a reduction in overall carotenoid accumulation and a compromised expression in the carotenoid biosynthesis genes. We predicted and determined the exact CRZ-1 binding sites in the carotenoid biosynthesis genes <i>al-2</i>, <i>cao-2</i>, and <i>ylo-1</i> genes. CRZ-1 binds in the promoter of <i>al-2</i> in three different regions − 948 to − 955 bp, − 1268 to − 1275 bp, and − 897 to − 904 bp. Similarly, CRZ-1 binds to two different regions − 1742 to − 1749 and − 1232 to − 1239 bp in <i>cao-2</i>, and three different regions − 557 to − 564, − 513 to − 520, and − 511 to − 518 bp in the upstream of the start codon of <i>ylo-1</i>. Therefore, the CRZ-1 transcription factor regulates carotenoid biosynthesis genes in <i>N. crassa</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141531339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Five novel Curvularia species (Pleosporaceae, Pleosporales) isolated from fairy circles in the Namib desert","authors":"Nicole van Vuuren, Neriman Yilmaz, Michael J. Wingfield, Cobus M. Visagie","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01977-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01977-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Namib Desert (Namibia) is home to fairy circles which are barren, circular to almost-circular patches of land surrounded by grasses<i>.</i> During a survey of the fungi associated with the most common grass species, <i>Stipagrostis ciliata</i> (<i>Poaceae</i>), and its rhizospheric soils associated with these fairy circles, <i>Curvularia</i> was commonly isolated (80 strains). <i>Curvularia</i> is a cosmopolitan fungal genus that occurs in diverse geographical locations and on a wide range of substrates, but particularly on foliar plants. <i>Curvularia</i> strains were identified based on multilocus sequence comparisons of their internal transcribed spacer rDNA region (ITS), and the partial gene regions of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (<i>GAPDH</i>) and translation elongation factor 1-alpha (<i>TEF1</i>). The strains belonged to 13 species, including the discovery of five novel <i>Curvularia</i> species. The aim of this paper was to report on the identified species and to formally describe and name the new species as <i>C. deserticola, C. gobabebensis, C. maraisii, C. namibensis</i>, and <i>C. stipagrostidicola.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phylogenetic and morphological studies reveal large diversity and three new species in Amanita sect. Vaginatae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) from Europe","authors":"Dóra Varga, Jean-Michel Hanss, Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Gábor M. Kovács, Bálint Dima","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01974-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01974-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>European members of the species-rich sect. <i>Vaginatae</i> of the genus <i>Amanita</i> are studied focusing on Central (Austria, Hungary, N Italy and Romania), Western (France) and North European (Norway) collections. The combination of a 4-locus (nrDNA ITS, nrDNA LSU, <i>RPB1</i> and <i>TEF1-α</i>) molecular phylogenetic analysis and a morphological approach resulted in the discovery of three new species: <i>Amanita deflexa</i> and <i>A. griseofulva</i> from stirps <i>Fulva</i> and <i>A. opaca</i> from stirps <i>Coryli</i>. Furthermore, the albinotic white forms of <i>A. griseofulva</i> (f. <i>albida</i>) and <i>A. opaca</i> (f. <i>cettoi</i>) are formally named. As a result of the comprehensive taxonomic revision of <i>Amanita</i> sect. <i>Vaginatae</i>, 370 newly generated sequences are deposited to GenBank, and 17 species new to Hungary are reported. This study provides another step towards understanding the taxonomy and diversity of <i>Amanita</i> section <i>Vaginatae</i> in Europe.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disentangling the chaos of Fuscosporella reveals a new potential morphological adaptation to spore dispersal in aero-aquatic hyphomycetes","authors":"Teik-Khiang Goh, Sung-Yuan Hsieh, Chang-Hsin Kuo","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01975-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01975-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Fuscosporella xingyiensis</i>, collected from submerged wood in Malaysia and Taiwan, is described and illustrated with light and scanning electron micrographs. It is a dematiaceous hyphomycete producing ellipsoidal, muriform conidia with two lateral hyaline, sac-like appendages, one at each end of the conidium. This unique type of conidia for the first time is indicated to be formed by intercalary growth and differentiation and suggested as hitherto unknown further type of morphological adaptation to dispersal by water. In this paper, the genus <i>Fuscosporella</i> is also taxonomically revised. The taxonomic confusion originated from the confusion of two species in the original description of <i>F. pyriformis</i>, the type species of the genus. A new generic circumscription for <i>Fuscosporella</i> is provided, with correct illustration of <i>F. pyriformis</i> after careful examination of the protologue and holotype. The conidial dimensions of the five <i>Fuscosporella</i> species are compared and brief comments to each species are given according to the emended generic concepts. As evident from morphological and phylogenetic studies, there are currently four accepted species in <i>Fuscosporella</i>. <i>Fuscosporella atrobrunnea</i> is synonymized with <i>F. xingyiensis</i>, whereas <i>Parafuscosporella lignicola</i> is renamed as <i>Vanakripa lignicola</i> comb. nov.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biofilm formation by the fungus Phaeomoniella chlamydospora: a causal agent of esca disease of grapevine","authors":"Zoltán Karácsony, Nikolett Molnár, Dóra Szabó, Nóra Bakos-Barczi, Miklós Lovas, Xénia Pálfi, Kálmán Zoltán Váczy","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01976-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01976-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The present study suggests that the Esca pathogenic fungus <i>Phaeomoniella chlamydospora</i> can form biofilm in vitro and possibly in the grapevine host tissues. This phenomenon was revealed by the detailed examination of the development of three isolates of the fungus, showing dimorphic growth with the formation of yeast-like cells in the center, which were embedded in a polysaccharide-rich extracellular matrix, and filamentous growth at the colony margins. The colonies produced acetate, which chemical proved to be an enhancer of yeast-like growth and extracellular matrix production. The dynamic of biofilm formation was correlated with the ability of the strains to produce acetate, suggesting that it acts as a quorum sensing molecule in the process. The dimorphic growth of <i>P. chlamydospora</i> was also demonstrated in host tissues as a sole nutrient source, suggesting that biofilm can be produced <i>in planta</i> and take part in the pathogenesis of Esca. The biofilms formed by the fungus may contribute to the previously reported inhibition of sap flow in the infected plants, while its quorum sensing-mediated nature may partly explain the controversial literature data on the occurrence of the pathogen and symptom severity in the host.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"2015 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141501476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poaceascoma zborayi sp. nov. and Agrorhizomyces patris gen. et spec. nov. – Two novel dark septate endophytes colonizing wheat (Triticum aestivum) roots from a cropland in Hungary","authors":"Ildikó Imrefi, Dániel G. Knapp, Gábor M. Kovács","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01970-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01970-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we investigated two distinct new phylogenetic lineages of root-colonizing dark septate endophytic fungi colonizing wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i>) roots from a long-term agricultural experimental site in Hungary. According to four-locus (internal transcribed spacer, partial large and small subunit regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA, and partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha) phylogenetic analyses, the isolates belong to the <i>Lentitheciaceae</i> and <i>Didymosphaeriaceae</i> of the <i>Pleosporales</i> (<i>Dothideomycetes</i>). We studied the morphology and culture characteristics of the strains. We carried out in vitro resynthesis pot experiments with their original hosts and found no overall negative effect of the inoculation with different isolates of the new taxa. One of the lineages belonged to the genus <i>Poaceascoma</i> (<i>Lentitheciaceae</i>) and represented a novel species described here as <i>Poaceascoma zborayi</i>. We could describe conidia-like structures from this species. Isolates of the other lineage represented a monotypic novel genus in the <i>Didymosphaeriaceae</i>. Accordingly, the new genus, <i>Agrorhizomyces</i>, represented by the species <i>A. patris</i>, is introduced. Sterile, globose structures resembling immature sporocarps were detected. Sequence similarity searches indicated that <i>P. zborayi</i> might be widely distributed, while no sequence similar to <i>A. patris</i> was found outside the sampling area.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"313 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141259753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Morphology and molecular phylogeny of four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Europe and Western Eurasia","authors":"Oğuzhan Kaygusuz, Kai Reschke, Abdullah Kaya, Bálint Dima, Olga Morozova, Machiel Evert Noordeloos, Meike Piepenbring","doi":"10.1007/s11557-024-01972-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-024-01972-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Entoloma</i> is one of the largest genera of <i>Agaricales</i> in terms of species diversity and is widespread throughout the world. In the present study, four new species, namely <i>Entoloma brunneofibrillosum</i>,<i> E</i>. <i>humidiphilum</i>, <i>E</i>. <i>ochraceodiscum</i>, and <i>E</i>. <i>colchicum</i>, are introduced as new to science. These species are described based on specimens collected in Cyprus, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Spain, and Türkiye, including morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences. <i>Entoloma brunneofibrillosum</i> is recognized by its brown to dark brown pileus with conspicuous dark, radial fibrils, a pale brown stipe with glistening fibrils, and usually fusiform to broadly clavate cheilocystidia. It belongs to the /Undulatosporum clade. <i>Entoloma humidiphilum</i> (subg. <i>Alboleptonia</i>) is close to <i>E</i>. <i>niveum</i> from New Zealand but differs by a completely pruinose or minutely squamulose pileus surface, narrowly cylindrical to cylindrical pileipellis elements with a deep median constriction, and by occurring in riparian habitats. <i>Entoloma ochraceodiscum</i> is characterized by funnel-shaped basidiomata with a deeply depressed yellowish-brown pileus and belongs to the section <i>Griseorubida</i>. <i>Entoloma colchicum</i> (subg. <i>Nolanea</i>) is similar to <i>E</i>. <i>ortonii</i> but differs by its distinctive radially fibrillose or velutinous pileus and the absence of odour. The new species are presented with photographs, line drawings, and comparisons with similar taxa.</p>","PeriodicalId":19111,"journal":{"name":"Mycological Progress","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141171212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}