Poria cocos (Polyporaceae) is a saprophytic fungus that grows in diverse species of Pinus.
Its sclerotium, called fu-ling or hoelen, is used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine …

Brown rot decay removes cellulose and hemicellulose from wood—residual lignin
contributing up to 30% of forest soil carbon—and is derived from an ancestral white rot …

The phylogeny of Trametes and related genera was studied using molecular data from
ribosomal markers (nLSU, ITS) and protein–coding genes (RPB1, RPB2, TEF1–alpha) and …

High levels of atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition may result in greater terrestrial carbon
(C) storage. In a northern hardwood ecosystem, exposure to over a decade of simulated N …

Identification of specific genes and enzymes involved in conversion of lignocellulosics from
an expanding number of potential feedstocks is of growing interest to bioenergy process …

Fruiting body evolution is one of the central topics in fungal evolutionary biology. A number
of hypotheses have been developed to explain the contemporary diversity of fruiting body …

Abstract Background The fungal genus Serpula (Serpulaceae, Boletales) comprises several
saprotrophic (brown rot) taxa, including the aggressive house-infecting dry rot fungus …

This is a review of the available knowledge on nuclear behavior of the mycelium within
polypore genera (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota). Information on 68 genera showed that …

A new genus, Sidera (Hymenochaetales), is described to accommodate the dimitic
polypores Skeletocutis lenis and S. vulgaris, the monomitic polypore Ceriporiopsis lowei …

Current knowledge about Italian wood-decay fungi (Basidiomycota and Ascomycota) is
surveyed: 1582 taxa belonging to Ascomycota (341) and Basidiomycota (1241) have been …