Fungi are a diverse group of organisms with a huge variation in reproductive strategy. While
almost all species can reproduce sexually, many reproduce asexually most of the time …

Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi are major microbial components of boreal, temperate and
Mediterranean forests, as well as some tropical forest ecosystems. Nearly two decades of …

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, the causal agent of fusarium wilt of banana (Musa spp.),
is one of the most destructive strains of the vascular wilt fungus F. oxysporum. Genetic …

Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EcMF) form diverse communities and link different host plants into
mycorrhizal networks, yet little is known about the magnitude of mycobiont diversity of a …

Background Analysis of the population genetic structure of microbial species is of
fundamental importance to many scientific disciplines because it can identify cryptic species …

The black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is a textbook example of a generalistic and
ubiquitous fungus thriving in a wide variety of environments. To investigate whether A …

Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (PST), a basidiomycota responsible for wheat yellow rust, has
a strict clonal behavior and a low genetic diversity in European and Australian populations …

Three new aflatoxin-producing species belonging to Aspergillus section Flavi are described.
They are Aspergillus mottae, A. sergii and A. transmontanensis. These species were …

Significant progress has been made since the previous edition of The Mycota published in
2006. The most conspicuous advances have concerned firstly our understanding of the …

Cenococcum geophilum is a widely distributed mycorrhizal species associated with diverse
gymnosperm and angiosperm hosts. In previous studies, a significant amount of genetic and …