The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies.Over the past decades,rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved i...The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies.Over the past decades,rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats.Yet,in spite of the progress of molecular methods,knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging.In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels.Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and FunFun together with involvement of expert knowledge,we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera,respectively.This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera,designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental stud-ies.In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses,the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences.On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1%dissimilarity threshold.展开更多
The global expansion of cultivation areas of Jatropha has contributed to the emergence of various diseases.Currently in Brazil,the occurrence of a new disease has been reported that not only reduces the productivity b...The global expansion of cultivation areas of Jatropha has contributed to the emergence of various diseases.Currently in Brazil,the occurrence of a new disease has been reported that not only reduces the productivity but also causes the death of Jatropha.This disease is associated with collar and root rot of plants.From morphological and phylogenetic studies(based on Internal Transcribed Spacers,β-tubulin and Translation Elongation Factor 1-αsequences),nine species of Botryosphaeriaceae were identified.These species include Lasiodiplodia egyptiacae,L.pseudotheobromae,L.theobromae,Macrophomina phaseolina,Neoscytalidium hyalinum and four Lasiodiplodia spp.that are proposed as new species(L.euphorbicola,L.jatrophicola,L.macrospora and L.subglobosa).All the species in this study,except M.phaseolina,are pathogenic.The results show that root rot of physic nut plants is caused by complex pathogens.This study provides new information for future studies of disease management,quarantine programs and,especially,the development of resistant varieties for collar and root rot disease in J.curcas.展开更多
Correction to:Fungal Diversity(2020)105:116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2 There were errors in the name of author LászlóG.Nagy and in affiliation no.31 in the original publication.The original a...Correction to:Fungal Diversity(2020)105:116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2 There were errors in the name of author LászlóG.Nagy and in affiliation no.31 in the original publication.The original article has been corrected.展开更多
基金Estonian Science Foundation grants PSG136,PRG632,PUT1170the University of Tartu(PLTOM20903)the European Regional Development Fund(Centre of Excellence EcolChange).
文摘The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies.Over the past decades,rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats.Yet,in spite of the progress of molecular methods,knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging.In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels.Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and FunFun together with involvement of expert knowledge,we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera,respectively.This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera,designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental stud-ies.In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses,the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences.On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1%dissimilarity threshold.
基金the financial support of the work(CAG-APQ-00987-11)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq for authors fellowships。
文摘The global expansion of cultivation areas of Jatropha has contributed to the emergence of various diseases.Currently in Brazil,the occurrence of a new disease has been reported that not only reduces the productivity but also causes the death of Jatropha.This disease is associated with collar and root rot of plants.From morphological and phylogenetic studies(based on Internal Transcribed Spacers,β-tubulin and Translation Elongation Factor 1-αsequences),nine species of Botryosphaeriaceae were identified.These species include Lasiodiplodia egyptiacae,L.pseudotheobromae,L.theobromae,Macrophomina phaseolina,Neoscytalidium hyalinum and four Lasiodiplodia spp.that are proposed as new species(L.euphorbicola,L.jatrophicola,L.macrospora and L.subglobosa).All the species in this study,except M.phaseolina,are pathogenic.The results show that root rot of physic nut plants is caused by complex pathogens.This study provides new information for future studies of disease management,quarantine programs and,especially,the development of resistant varieties for collar and root rot disease in J.curcas.
文摘Correction to:Fungal Diversity(2020)105:116 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00466-2 There were errors in the name of author LászlóG.Nagy and in affiliation no.31 in the original publication.The original article has been corrected.