The invasive insect pest, red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, poses a significant threat to date production, causing substantial economic damage. If uncontrolled, RPW leads the severely infested host tre...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1401100).
Wing dimorphism is a fascinating feature of the ability of insects to adapt to environments.The brown planthopper(BPH)Nilaparvata lugens,a serious pest of rice,can switch between the long-and short-winged morphs.It ha...
Background:The expression of gender in gymnosperms is challenging because the extent of variability in gender segregations in tree crowns and selection pressure of nature can modify the gender through time.Methods:An ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31261120580).
Aims Fruit color polymorphisms are widespread in plants,but what maintains them is largely unclear.One hypothesis is that some morphs are preferred by dispersers while others have higher pre-or postdispersal fitness.T...
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...
funded by the grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31660008,31860006);Fungal diversity conservation and utilization innovation team of Dali University(ZKLX2019213);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC 31600032);Thailand Research Funds for the grant entitled Impact of climate change on fungal diversity and biogeography in the Greater Mekong Subregion,grant number:RDG6130001.
Sordariomycetes is one of the largest classes of Ascomycota that comprises a highly diverse range of fungi mainly characterized by perithecial ascomata and inoperculate unitunicate asci.Freshwater Sordariomycetes play...
Cimicifuga simplex Wormsk. (Ranunculaceae) is a perennial herb distributed in eastern and northeastern Asia for which at least three different pollination morphs have been reported. It is classified as endangered or n...
The Agricultural Seed Project of Shandong Province
Sea cucumber, Apostichopus japonicus(Selenka), is a commercially important marine species in China. Among the differently colored varieties sold in China, white and purple sea cucumbers have the greatest appeal to c...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project ID:NSF 31500017 to Huang Zhang);Scientific Foundation of Kunming University of Science and Technology(Project ID:14118899 to Huang Zhang);Thanks are extended to Saranyaphat Boonmee for their assistance in microscope use.
Species with relatively small,membraneous,black ascomata,with or without long necks,unitunicate,cylindrical asci with apical rings and fusiform,hyaline ascospores with or without mucilaginous sheaths are common in fre...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171846)
The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens is an economically important pest on rice plants. This species produces macropterous and brachypterous morphs in response to environmental cues, which makes it very dififcult ...