Danny Haelewaters is supported by the Research Foundation-Flanders(junior postdoctoral fellowship 1206620N);Dhanushka Wanasinghe thanks the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative(PIFI)for funding his postdoctoral research(number 2021FYB0005);the Postdoctoral Fund from Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Yunnan Province.
Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are disappearing at an ever increasing rate.The high number of species that have yet to be described have generated extreme crisis to t...
US National Science Foundation(NSF)DEB 1737898(GB and NVP),Michigan State University AgBioResearch NIFA project MICL02416(GB),NSF STC BEACON Cooperative Agreement DBI-093954(GB&NVP);US National Science Foundation(The Zygomycetes Genealogy of Life)DEB1354802 and DEB1441677(JS);JGI-the work conducted by the U.S.Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute,a DOE Office of Science User Facility,is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S.Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231;Data analyses were performed on the High-Performance Computing Cluster at the University of California-Riverside in the Institute of Integrative Genome Biology supported by NSF DBI-1429826 and NIH S10-OD016290(JS).
Early efforts to classify Mortierellaceae were based on macro-and micromorphology,but sequencing and phylogenetic studies with ribosomal DNA(rDNA)markers have demonstrated conflicting taxonomic groupings and polyphyle...
Ausana Mapook was financially supported by Research and Researchers for Industry Program(RRI)PHD57I0012,Thailand and the German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD)for a joint TRF-DAAD(PPP 2017–2018)academic exchange grant to Kevin D.Hyde and Marc Stadler.Kevin D.Hyde thanks to the 2019 high-end foreign expert introduction plan to Kunming Institute of Botany(granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China,Grant Number G20190139006);Thailand Research grants entitled Biodiversity,phylogeny and role of fungal endophytes on above parts of Rhizophora apiculata and Nypa fruticans(Grant No:RSA5980068);the future of specialist fungi in a changing climate:baseline data for generalist and specialist fungi associated with ants,Rhododendron species and Dracaena species(Grant No:DBG6080013);Impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Subregion(Grant No:RDG6130001).
This article provides morphological descriptions and illustrations of microfungi associated with the invasive weed,Chro-molaena odorata,which were mainly collected in northern Thailand.Seventy-seven taxa distributed i...
funded by the grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC Grants Nos.31670027,31460011,30870009);Dr.Shaun Pennycook(Landcare Research Manaaki Whenua,New Zealand)for advising on the fungal names.JK Liu would like to thank the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province(LH[2015]7061);National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31600032);the Thailand Research Fund(Grants Nos.DBG6080013,RDG6130001);MFU and University of Mauritius for research support.S Boonmee would like to thank the Thailand Research Fund(Project No.TRG5880152).
This study deals with an extensive taxonomic reevaluation focusing on phylogenetic relationships and morphological characterization of Tubeufiales,especially those helicosporous hyphomycetes which are difficult to ide...
K.D.Hyde thanks the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Project Number 2013T2S0030;for the award of Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists at Kunming Institute of Botany.The authors extend their appreciation to the International Scientific Partnership Program ISPP at King Saud University for funding this research work through ISPP#0089;K.D.Hyde would like to thank the Thailand Research Fund(TRF)Grant No.RSA5980068 entitled Biodiversity;phylogeny and role of fungal endophytes on above parts of Rhizophora apiculata and Nypa fruticans and National Research Council of Thailand(NRCT)entitled Diseases of mangrove trees and maintenance of good forestry practice(Grant Number:60201000201);The authors would like to thank NRCT for the grant to study the Biodiversity,phylogeny and role of fungal endophytes of Pandanaceae(Grant No.:592010200112).
The previous phylogenies of Sordariomycetes by M.E.Barr,O.E.Eriksson and D.L.Hawksworth,and T.Lumbsch and S.Huhndorf,were mainly based on morphology and thus were somewhat subjective.Later outlines by T.Lumbsch and S....
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China to RLZ(Project IDs 31000013,31360014 and 31470152);the Thailand Research Fund to KDH(grant BRG 5580009);the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the ROM Governors to JMM.Dr.Richard Kerrigan made valuable comments and suggestions to improve this paper.
The recognition of taxonomic ranks in the Linnean classification system is largely arbitrary.Some authors have proposed the use of divergence time as a universally standardized criterion.Agaricus(Agaricaceae,Agaricale...
Six new species of Fusarium associated with soil and plant hosts from ecosystems of minimal anthropogenic disturbance in Australia are described.Fusarium coicis from Coix gasteenii,F.goolgardi from Xanthorrhoea glauca...
This work was not directly supported by grants,but the following grants were essential in obtaining collections and some sequences used in this work:US NSF Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories Program grants to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York,College at Cortland(DEB-9525902 and DEB-0103621),in collaboration with the USDA-Forest Service,Center for Forest Mycology Research,Forest Products Laboratory in Madison supported collecting in Belize,the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.US NSF grant DBI 6338699 to K.W.Hughes and R.H.Peterson at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville supported collecting by E.Lickey,D.J.Lodge,K.W.Hughes,R.Kerrigan,A.Methven,V.P.Hustedt,P.B.Matheny and R.H.Petersen in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park,and sequencing by K.W.Hughes and Lickey.A National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration grant to T.J.Baroni(SUNY Cortland)supported the 2007 expedition to Doyle’s Delight in Belize by M.C.Aime,T.J.Baroni and D.J.Lodge.An Explorer’s Club,Washington Group Exploration and Field Research Grant to M.C.Aime and a National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration grant to T.Henkel supported collecting in Guyana.
Molecular phylogenies using 1–4 gene regions and information on ecology,morphology and pigment chemistry were used in a partial revision of the agaric family Hygrophoraceae.The phylogenetically supported genera we re...
support to TS from the U.S.National Park Service,Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park,and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve(project R9815110518);as well as the Austrian Science Foundation(FWF,project P21052-B16);research funding awarded to LM by the Karl-Franzens University of Graz(2010).
Lichens that incorporate cyanobacterial symbionts(cyanolichens)are an ecologically key group of species used as biomonitors at all latitudes.Cyanolichen evolution is however based on intense studies of few keystone sp...