Mushroom cultivation presents an economically important biotechnological industry that has
markedly expanded all over the world in the past few decades. Mushrooms serve as …

Coprinus cinereus has two main types of mycelia, the asexual monokaryon and the sexual
dikaryon, formed by fusion of compatible monokaryons. Syngamy (plasmogamy) and …

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Spo11 protein catalyses DNA double‐strand breaks (DSBs)
that initiate meiotic recombination. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana possesses at least …

The study of gene function in filamentous fungi is a field of research that has made great
advances in very recent years. A number of transformation and gene manipulation strategies …

Pleurotus ostreatus is one of the most commercially produced edible mushrooms worldwide.
Improved cultivated strains with more useful traits have been obtained using classical …

Mushroom-forming basidiomycetes produce a wide range of metabolites and have great
value not only as food but also as an important global natural resource. Here, we …

The agaricomycete (homobasidiomycete) Coprinopsis cinerea has been used as a model to
study the molecular mechanism for photomorphogenesis. Molecular genetic analyses of …

The homobasidiomycete Coprinus cinereus exhibits remarkable photomorphogenesis
during fruiting-body development. Under proper light conditions, fruiting-body primordia …

Spo11, a type II topoisomerase, is likely to be required universally for initiation of meiotic
recombination. However, a dichotomy exists between budding yeast and the animals …

We have developed a “Molecular Toolkit” comprising interchangeable promoters and
marker genes to facilitate transformation of homobasidiomycete mushrooms. We describe …