Somatic incompatibility regulates allorecognition (recognition of nonself) and allorejection
following somatic contacts in many groups of organisms. The occurrence of somatic …

This new edition of the universally acclaimed and widely-used textbook on fungal biology
has been completely re-written, drawing directly on the authors' research and teaching …

Fungi play vital roles in all ecosystems, as decomposers, symbionts of animals and plants
and as parasites. Thus their ecology is of great interest. It has been estimated that there may …

The mycelium of higher fungi is portrayed as a developmentally versatile collective in which
an initially dendritic pattern of branching is converted, by hyphal anastomosis, into a …

With its strict criteria, required documentation and coverage of all groups of multicellular
organisms, the red-listing system of IUCN is recognized as the most authoritative guide to …

On wood surfaces and in planar section, zones lines appear as narrow and sharply
delineated dark lines within wood visibly altered (“spalted”) by the decay process. In intact …

The spatial distribution of clones in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus bovinus (L. ex Fr.) O.
Kuntze was studied from somatic incompatibility pairings of isolates in four Scots pine (Pinus …

Dispersal via basidiospores has predictable consequences for fungal population structure.
Spatial distribution of 60 heterokaryons in a natural population of Pleurotus ostreatus was …

Somatic compatibility is used to identify clones or vegetative compatibility groups (VCG) in
fungal populations. For basidiomycetes, VCGs have normally been associated with either …

Interactions among wood-decay fungi can have a profound effect on fungal community
composition, decay rates and ultimately the chemical composition of the material remaining …