supported by the Top-notch Young Talents Project of Yunnan Province(YNWR-QNBJ-2019-203);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32470394);the Key Basic Research Programof Yunnan Province(202201AS070057,202101BC070003,and 202103AC100003).
Evolutionary transitions from sexual to asexual reproduction should have significant influences on genetic divergence and polymorphism at the genome level.Plant lineages with diverse reproductive systems provide oppor...
supported by the Province Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang(2021C02047);a MEXT Scholarship by the Japanese Government to Xiaofei Tian,the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(KAKENHI)15H02642,16H02522,and 20H03315;the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund by the Ministry of Environment,Japan(4-2103)to Jotaro Urabe.
Evolutionary theory suggests the hypothesis that among genetically isolated populations,phenotypic variation should be smaller in populations with smaller ratios of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions(dN/dS)beca...
This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2104300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32200055 and 22378210);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20202002).
Aspergillus niger is an efficient cell factory for organic acids production,particularly l-malic acid,through genetic manipulation.However,the traditional method of collecting A.niger spores for inoculation is labor-i...
supported by grants from the Zhejiang Provincial“Three Rural Nine Parties”Science and Technology Cooperation Plan Project(2022SNJF027).
The transfer of genetic material between stocks and scions of grafted plants has been extensively studied;however,the nature and frequency of the transferred material remain elusive.Here,we report a grafting system in...
Funding was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.31230001,U200220015).
Most fungi display a mixed mating system with both asexual and sexual reproduction.The timing of the two modes of reproduction must be carefully coordinated through signal perception and coordination in the cell along...
Funding was provided by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(Grant no.2014FY120100);Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Karst Science Research Center of Guizhou Province(Grant no.U1812401).
Freshwater fungi comprises a highly diverse group of organisms occurring in freshwater habitats throughout the world.Dur-ing a survey of freshwater fungi on submerged wood in streams and lakes,a wide range of sexual a...
The Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program(NESP)Tropical Water Quality(TWQ)Hub Projects 2.1.6 and 5.2:From exposure to risk:novel experimental approaches to analyse cumulative impacts and determine thresholds in the GBRWHA。
Large benthic foraminifera are an integral component of shallow-water tropical habitats and like many marine calcifiers,are susceptible to ocean acidification(OA)and ocean warming(OW).In particular,the prolific Symbio...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31730068 and No.31330059);China Scholarship Council(202006760071).
Monascus species are traditional edible and medicinal filamentous fungi with a very long history in East Asia,but their sparse production of asexual spores(conidia)limits their large-scale industrial application.Previ...
Kevin D.Hyde thanks the 2019 high-end foreign expert introduction plan(granted by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China,Grant Number G20190139006);the Thailand Research Fund entitled“Impact of climate Change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the greater Mekong subregion”(RDG6130001);Wen-Jing Li,Qing Tian,Qiu-Ju Shang thank the Mushroom Research Foundation(MRF),Chiang Rai Province,Thailand for providing Postgraduate Scholarships.Wen-Jing Li would like to thank Ya-Ting Li,Li-Han Sheng for help re-drawing part of photos.Wen-Jing Li is also grateful to Assistant Prof.Huang Zhang,Dr.Putarak Chomnunti for images of Aquasubmersa mircensis,Clohesyomyces aquaticus,Neopyrenochaeta annellidica and Scorias spongiosa,and Prof.Alan J.L.Phillips,Xiao-Ya Ma,Yuan-Pin Xiao,Sheng-Nan Zhang,Jing Yang,Ming Zeng,Yong-Zhong Lu for assistance and valuable suggestions.Wen-Jing Li would like to thank the Molecular Biology Experimental Center at Kunming Institute of Botany for facilities of molecular work.We would like to thank the curators of the herbarium CUP,DAOM,FH,HAL,HHUF,IMI,K,and PREM for loaning herbarium specimens and for being very helpful in locating specimens.Without their help this work would not have been possible.The abbreviations of herbarium are those listed in Index Herbariorum(2019).We also wish to acknowledge Saranyaphat Boonmee,curator of MFLU(Mae Fah Luang University)and Liu Ende,Assistant Curator,Herbarium,Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences(KUN),Kunming,for arranging the loan of specimens from various herbaria.We also thank the technical staff of Center of Excellence in Fungal Research,Sornram Sukpisit and Wilawan Punyaboon for their invaluable assistance.We also would like to thank Shaun Pennycook for assistance in checking the name of new taxa.We would like to thank Prof.Crous for providing culture from CBS(Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute).Erio Camporesi is grateful to Giancarlo Lombardi,Sergio Montanari and Gigi Stagioni for their help i
Coelomycete is a general term used for asexual fungi which produce conidia in fruiting bodies:pycnidial,acervular,cupulate,pycnothyria or stromatic conidiomata.The group contains numerous plant pathogenic,saprobic and...
Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFC1404402);the Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(No.2016ASKJ02);the Basic Scientific Foundation of Guangxi Institute of Public Welfare Scientific Research(No.2019GMRC03)
Aurelia coerulea polyp is an important stage in the outbreaks of this species.To test the combined effects of salinity and temperature on the survival and asexual reproduction of polyps,we maintained 864 polyps at var...