The research leading to these results also attracted funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme(FP7/2007-2013)under grant agreement no;265171,project FunDivEUROPE as well as of the BACCARA project,which received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme(FP7/2007-2013),under grant agreement no;226299.O.P.and H.B.also acknowledge the support of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research(iDiv)HalleJena-Leipzig,funded by the German Science Foundation(FZT 118).
Foliar fungal pathogens affect forest ecosystem processes by exerting highly species-specific impacts on growth and survival of trees.As many ecosystem processes in forests depend on functional diversity of specific t...
This work was supported by a National Science Foundation grant#IOS-1147033 and a Vanderbilt University Central Discovery Grant awarded to PA.
Insect-induced galls are abnormal plant growths that can provide food and shelter to their inhabitants,resulting in stressed plant tissue that may alter the conditions for the colonization or proliferation of endophyt...
This project was funded by the National Science Foundation Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy(NSF 03-28364).Additional funding for field work by DMW was received through Rutgers University,New Brunswick,NJ,from the C.Reed Funk Student Award by the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology,also the Backus Award and Everett Lutrell Mentor Student Travel Award from the Mycological Society of America.DMW also thanks Jo Anne Crouch and Adam Bazinet for assistance with data analyses,Kentaro Hosaka,Shinobu Inoue,Takao Kobayashi,Tsuyoshi Hosoya,Yousuke Degawa for hosting a collecting trip to Japan and Yuuri Hirooka for coordinating the visit,Christian Feuillet and Drew Minnis for discussions about nomenclature,Ryan Vo and Tunesha Phipps for technical assistance,and Larissa Vasilyeva,Alain Gardiennet,Yannick Mourgues,Marc Chovillon,Jacques Fornier,and Mikhail Sogonov for collection of fresh specimens for examination.
Species of Ophiognomonia are leaf-inhabiting endophytes,pathogens,and saprobes that infect plants in the families Betulaceae,Fagaceae,Juglandaceae,Lauraceae,Malvaceae,Platanaceae,Rosaceae,Salicaceae,and Sapindaceae.Ba...
supported by the Thailand Research Fund BRG528002.
Trichomerium is a genus of foliar epiphytes with the appearance of sooty moulds,mostly occurring on the surface of living leaves and apparently gaining their nutrients from insect exudates.Species have ascostromata wi...
The authors thank their University and the“Akademisches Auslandsamt Greifswald”for funding within the“Forschungsnetzwerk Ostseeraum 2011”.MU thanks Urmas Kõljalg,Leho Tedersoo and Kessy Abarenkov for introduction into UNITE and PlutoF,AP and MS thank the German Science Foundation(DFG)for funding(DFG SCHN 1080/1-1 and SCHN 1080/3-1).
Fungal research on non-lichenized taxa in xeric and other unusual habitats for fungi is comparatively scarce but constantly reveal an enormous ecological and functional adaptiveness of these organisms to extremes.This...
supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic(project Nr.526/08/0751);the Ministry of Education,Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic(project No.MSM0021620828);the Institutional Research Concept of the Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR,v.v.i.(AV0Z50200510).
The unmanaged Norway spruce montane forests in the Bohemian Forest National Park(Czech Republic)suffered from repeated large-scale bark beetle outbreaks in last decade.In this study,the diversity of culturable foliar ...