Intragenomic variation is the molecular variation within the genome among repetitive DNA.
As a multigene family, nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) has been widely used in fungal …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

Rust fungi are cosmopolitan in distribution and parasitize a wide range of plants, including
economically important crop species such as wheat. Detailed regional, national, and …

Many fungi are pathogenic on plants and cause significant damage in agriculture and
forestry. They are also part of the natural ecosystem and may play a role in regulating plant …

Hybridization plays a central role in plant evolution, but its overall importance in fungi is
unknown. New plant pathogens are thought to arise by hybridization between formerly …

Clonal reproduction is common in fungi and fungal-like organisms during epidemics and
invasion events. The success of clonal fungi shaped systems for their classification and …

This volume sits at the cross-roads of a number of areas of scientific interest that, in the past,
have largely kept themselves separate-agriculture, forestry, population genetics, ecology …

Background: Fungi are a major component of the functioning of all terrestrial ecosystems.
Objectives: To increase awareness of fungi as drivers of ecosystem processes, including …

Agaric fungi of the southern Appalachian Mountains including Great Smoky Mountains
National Park are often heterozygous for the rDNA internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) …

Considerable progress has been made towards the successful classical biological control of
many of Australia's exotic weeds over the past decade. Some 43 new arthropod or pathogen …