Mushroom fruiting bodies have been used as food and food-flavouring materials for
centuries for their unique and subtle flavour. However, the whole cycle from mycelium …

Background The majority of wood decomposing fungi are mushroom-forming
Agaricomycetes, which exhibit two main modes of plant cell wall decomposition: white rot, in …

Interactions between soil nitrogen (N) availability, fungal community composition, and soil
organic matter (SOM) regulate soil carbon (C) dynamics in many forest ecosystems, but …

In this review, we highlight the main insights that have been gathered from recent
developments using large-scale genomics of fungal saprotrophs and symbiotrophs …

Lignocellulosic biomass is a geographically abundant source of renewable energy, showing
enormous potential to contribute to escalating energy demands. Improving the industrial …

Decomposition is a major flux of the carbon cycle in forest soils and understanding the
involved processes is a key for budgeting carbon turnover. Decomposition is constrained by …

We have conducted a genome-level comparative study of basidiomycetes wood-rotting fungi
(white, brown and soft rot) to understand the total plant biomass (lignin, cellulose …

Hyphae represent a hallmark structure of multicellular fungi. The evolutionary origins of
hyphae and of the underlying genes are, however, hardly known. By systematically …

Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are mono-copper enzymes that oxidatively
degrade various polysaccharides. Genes encoding LPMOs in the AA9 family are abundant …

Orchid mycorrhizas (OM) are symbiotic interactions between fungi and terrestrial, epiphytic
or lithophytic species of the Orchidaceae. In the association, fungal hyphae enter …