Fungi are an important and diverse component of soil communities, but these communities
have proven difficult to study in conventional biotic surveys. We evaluated soil fungal …

Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological
nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types …

Species identification lies at the heart of biodiversity studies that has in recent years
favoured DNA-based approaches. Microbial Biological Resource Centres are a rich source …

Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition,
symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high …

A survey and analysis of fungal taxa introduced over seven decades is presented. The
numbers of introduced taxa were collated from ten editions of the Dictionary of the Fungi as …

Four fungal 18S rDNA and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) primer pairs were tested for their specificity towards target fungal DNA in soil DNA …

To ensure a stable platform for fungal taxonomy, it is of paramount importance that the
genetic application of generic names be based on their DNA sequence data, and wherever …

Taxonomy plays a central role in understanding the diversity of life, translating the products
of biological exploration and discovery—specimens and observations—into systems of …

Fungi represent a large proportion of the genetic diversity on Earth and fungal activity
influences the structure of plant and animal communities, as well as rates of ecosystem …

Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are typically examined for taxonomic affiliation through
sequence similarity searches involving the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the …