Resource diversity of Chinese macrofungi:edible,medicinal and poisonous species

The huge land areas in China provide highly diverse habitats for macrofungi.Of these macrofungi,many are directly related to people’s daily life and have been utilized by ancient Chinese for at least 6800 years.In this study,we evaluate the current known resource diversity of Chinese macrofungi.A total of 1662 taxa are summarized,and all species names and their authorities have been checked and corrected according to authentic mycological databases.Among the 1662 taxa,1020,692,and 480 are considered to be edible,medicinal and poisonous mushrooms,respectively.A few of edible macrofungi in China are commonly used for commercial production.All known medicinal functions are labeled for medicinal species.The most common medicinal functions possessed by Chinese macrofungi are antitumor or anticancer,followed by antioxidant and antimicrobial.A total of 277 Chinese macrofungi are edible simultaneously with certain medicinal functions and without known toxicity.These species could be treated as“Gold Mushrooms”.Contrarily,193 edible and/or medicinal species are also recognized as poisonous mushrooms.To avoid poisoning caused by these species,ingestion either in a proper way or in small amounts is important.However,the mycotoxins metabolized by these poisonous species could be a huge wealth of natural products yet to be explored.How to utilize these Chinese macrofungal resources is a critical to benefit humans worldwide.

Global diversity and systematics of Hymenochaetaceae with poroid hymenophore

Taxonomy and phylogeny of poroid Hymenochaetaceae based on the most comprehensive phylogenetic analyses are pre-sented.A phylogeny based on a combined dataset of ITS and nLSU sequences for accepted genera of Hymenochaetaceae was analyzed and two or multigene phylogenies for most species of ten large genera including Coltricia,Fomitiporella,Fomiti-poria,Fulvifomes,Fuscoporia,Inonotus,Phylloporia,Porodaedalea,Sanghuangporus and Tropicoporus,were carried out.Based on samples from 37 countries of five continents,seven new genera,Meganotus,Neophellinus,Nothonotus,Pachynotus,Perenninotus,Pseudophylloporia and Rigidonotus,are introduced,37 new species,Coltricia tibetica,Fomitiporella crassa,F.queenslandica,Fomitiporia eucalypti,F.gatesii,F.ovoidospora,Fulvifomes azonatus,F.caligoporus,F.costaricense,F.floridanus,F.jouzaii,F.nakasoneae,F.subindicus,Fuscoporia sinuosa,F.submurina,Inonotus subradiatus,I.vietnamensis,Neomensularia castanopsidis,Pachynotus punctatus,Phellinus cuspidatus,P.subellipsoideus,Phylloporia minutissima,P.tabernaemontanae,Porodaedalea occidentiamericana,P.orientoamericana,P.qilianensis,P.schrenkianae,Pseudo-phylloporia australiana,Sanghuangporus australianus,S.lagerstroemiae,Tropicoporus angustisulcatus,T.hainanicus,T.lineatus,T.minus,T.ravidus,T.substratificans and T.tenuis,are described,and 108 new combinations are proposed.In addition,one illegitimate name and two invalid names are renamed,and Coltricia and Coltriciella were synonymized.The taxonomic relevance and limits of the new taxa are discussed.Photos and illustrations for 37 new species are presented,and a full description for each new species is given.Eventually,this study recognizes 672 species in 34 genera and provides a modern treatment of the poroid Hymenochaetaceae in the world.A key to the accepted poroid genera of Hymenochaetaceae is provided,and identification keys to the accepted species of 32 poroid genera worldwide are given.A synopsis description of each species is included in these keys.

Global diversity and taxonomy of the Inonotus linteus complex(Hymenochaetales,Basidiomycota):Sanghuangporus gen.nov.,Tropicoporus excentrodendri and T.guanacastensis gen.et spp.nov.,and 17 new combinations

Although Inonotus linteus complex is placed in the genusInonotus,its perennial basidiocarps with a dimitic hyphal system,at least in the trama,distinguish the complex from other species in the genus,which have an annual habit and a monomitic hyphal system.The species number of Inonotus linteus complex has been increased in China and tropical America in recent publications.However,whether species in this complex belong to Inonotus has not specifically been addressed.To explore the phylogenetic placement of species of Inonotus linteus complex,we performed a comprehensive study using morphological and phylogenetic data based on global samples.nLSU(53 with 13 new)and ITS(70 with 18 new)datasets were used to produce the phylogenetic results.Taking into consideration the phylogenies inferred from the nLSU and ITS datasets,Inonotus is a polyphyletic genus comprising at least three clades.Clade A,the core Inonotus clade,contains the generic type,Inonotus hispidus,while Clades B and C comprise species from the Inonotus linteus complex.Morphological and phylogenetic evidence indicates that Clades B and C are new genera,and Sanghuangporus and Tropicoporus are introduced in this study.Ten species are transferred to Sanghuangporus and seven to Tropicoporus.Tropicoporus excentrodendri and T.guanacastensis spp.nov.are described,and their distinctive characters are discussed.Keys to the two new genera and the Inonotus sensu stricto,and to species of each new genus are provided.

Fungal diversity notes 1277-1386:taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa

This is the twelfth contribution to the Fungal Diversity Notes series on fungal taxonomy,based on materials collected from many countries which were examined and described using the methods of morphology,anatomy,and strain culture,combined with DNA sequence analyses.110 taxa are described and illustrated,including five new genera,92 new species,eight new combinations and other taxonomic contributions(one new sequenced species,one new host and three new records)which are accommodated in 40 families and 1 incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes.The new genera are Amyloceraceomyces,Catenuliconidia,Hansenopezia,Ionopezia and Magnopulchromyces.The new species are Amyloceraceomyces angustisporus,Amylocorticium ellipsosporum,Arthrinium sorghi,Catenuliconidia uniseptata,Clavulina sphaeropedunculata,Colletotrichum parthenocissicola,Coniothyrium triseptatum,Cortinarius indorusseus,C.paurigarhwalensis,C.sinensis,C.subsanguineus,C.xiaojinensis,Diaporthe pimpinel-lae,Dictyosporella guizhouensis,Diplodia torilicola,Fuscoporia marquesiana,F.semiarida,Hansenopezia decora,Helicoarcta-tus thailandicus,Hirsutella hongheensis,Humidicutis brunneovinacea,Lentaria gossypina,L.variabilis,Lycoperdon lahorense,L.pseudocurtisii,Magnopulchromyces scorpiophorus,Moelleriella gracilispora,Neodevriesia manglicola,Neodidymelliopsis salvia,N.urticae,Neoroussoella magnoliae,Neottiella gigaspora,Ophiosphaerella chiangraiensis,Phaeotremella yunnanensis,Podosphaera yulii,Rigidoporus juniperinus,Rhodofomitopsis pseudofeei,Russula benghalensis,Scleroramularia vermispora,Scytinopogon minisporus,Sporormurispora paulsenii,Thaxteriellopsis obliqus,Tomentella asiae-orientalis,T.atrobadia,T.atrocastanea,T.aureomarginata,T.brevis,T.brunneoflava,T.brunneogrisea,T.capitatocystidiata,T.changbaiensis,T.citri-nocystidiata,T.coffeae,T.conclusa,T.cystidiata,T.dimidiata,T.duplexa,T.efibulata,T.efibulis,T.farinosa,T.flavidobadia,T.fuscocrustosa,T.fuscofarinosa,T.fuscogranulosa,T.fuscopelliculosa,T.globospora,T.gloeocystidiata,T.griseocastanea,T.griseofusca,T.griseomarginata,T.inconspicua,T.incrustata,T.interrupta,T.liaoningensis,T.longiaculeifera,T.longiechinuli,T.megaspora,T.olivacea,T.olivaceobrunnea,T.pallidobrunnea,T.pallidomarginata,T.parvispora,T.pertenuis,T.qingyuanensis,T.segregata,T.separata,T.stipitata,T.storea,Trichoderma ceratophylletum,Tyromyces minutulus,Umbelopsis heterosporus and Xylolentia reniformis.The new combinations are Antrodiella descendena,Chloridium macrocladum,Hansenopezia retrocurvata,Rhodofomitopsis monomitica,Rh.oleracea,Fuscoporia licnoides,F.scruposa and Ionopezia gerardii.A new sequenced species(Graphis supracola),one new host(Aplosporella prunicola)and three new geographical records(Golovinomyces monardae,Paradictyoarthrinium diffractum and Prosthemium betulinum),are reported.

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Inonotus linteus complex

The Inonotus linteus complex comprises several closely related species characterized by pileate basidiomes,a heterogeneous hyphal system with a monomitic context and a dimitic hymenophoral trama.Setae are hymenial and basidiospores are broadly ellipsoid to subglobose,yellowish and thick-walled.Research to understand this complex have been particularly noticeable in East Asia.In the present paper,the complex was studied at a larger scale,including samples from Mesoamerica.Inonotus linteus,an epitype of this species being designated here,is circumscribed as a narrow sense based on morphological and phylogenetic data,and this has lead to delimiting a new species from Mesoamerica,viz.I.cubensis,and provides evidence for two additional species,I.alpinus and I.zonatus,from East Asia.Phylogenetic analyses of ITS sequences also confirmed the status of I.baumii,I.linteus,I.lonicericola,I.lonicerinus,I.vaninii,I.sanghuang,I.weigelae and I.weirianus as distinct taxa,while I.tenuicontextus is considered to be a synonym of I.weigelae.A key to 11 species in the complex is provided.

Phylogeny,divergence time estimation,and biogeography of the genus Heterobasidion(Basidiomycota,Russulales)

There have been several investigations into the genus Heterobasidion,however,differentiation of species in these studies have depended on the gene regions analyzed.Reliable defining of species,establishing species divergence times and establishing species biogeographical distributions have been challenging.Here,we used a multilocus phylogenetic approach and maximum parsimony,maximum likehood,and Bayesian analyses to infer the phylogenetic relationships of Heterobasidion species.In addition,we focused on a fungus fossil-based approach and used the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II-the second subunit of RNA polymerase II(RPB1-RPB2)dataset to perform maximum likelihoodbased estimation and Bayesian binary analyses,to assess the divergence and biogeographical distributions of Heterobasidion species.The Heterobasidion annousum/H.insulare species complex clusters in three groups in the phylogenetic analyses.Molecular dating suggests that ancestral Heterobasidion species originated in Eurasia during the Early Miocene,followed by dispersal and speciation to other continents during the Middle Miocene and Early Pliocene.Our data are compatible with the previous viewpoint that H.irregulare and H.occidentale colonized North America via different routes,which has been interpreted as Beringian and Thulean North Atlantic vicariance.In addition,we propose that the occurrence of H.araucariae in the southern Hemisphere was probably due to recent human-mediated introductions.Plate tectonics and long-distance dispersal are the most likely factors that influenced Heterobasidion speciation and biogeography.

FungalTraits:a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

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.

Phylogeny and global diversity of Polyporus group Melanopus (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)

Polyporus accommodates species with stipitate basidiocarps,a dimitic hyphal system with skeleto-binding hyphae,and hyaline,thin-walled,more or less cylindrical basidiospores.The species of Polyporus are divided into six morphological groups,of which Melanopus is characterized by coriaceous basidiocarps,thin context and a black cuticle on the stipe.In this study,we explore the phylogeny and species diversity of Polyporus sensu lato focusing on the group Melanopus based on global samples.Our combined ITS and nLSU dataset included 117 collections represented by 117 ITS and 94 nLSU sequences,of which 43 ITS and 37 nLSU sequences were newly generated.The resulting phylogenetic analysis recovered four clades,Favolus,Neofavolus,Melanopus and Polyporellus clades,while several species in the morphological groups Melanopus and Polyporus were outside these clades.Combined with morphological evidence,three new species in the Melanopus clade,Polyporus americanus,P.austroandinus and P.conifericola,are newly described and illustrated,and their distinctive characters are discussed.The illegitimate name Polyporus fraxineus is renamed as Polyporus fraxinicola.The phylogeny and taxonomy of each species in group Melanopus(morphology)or Melanopus clade(phylogeny)and related species are briefly discussed.

Correction to:FungalTraits:a user friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

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.

Mageb4,a Testis-Specific Gene,is Dispensable for Mouse Spermatogenesis

Objective:It has recently been shown that the melanoma antigen gene(MAGE)family is expressed in various tumor cell lines but silent in normal tissues,except germ cell lines.Mageb4,a member of the MAGE family,is highly expressed in the testis and homologous in humans and mice.Whole-exome sequencing studies have identifiedMageb4 as a possible X-linked cause of inherited male infertility.However,the function of Mageb4 protein remains largely unknown.Methods:Using clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein(Cas)9 technology,we generated aMageb4 knockout mouse model(Mageb4^-/Y)to explore the role of this gene in spermatogenesis.Results:First,immunostaining of testicular cells showed thatMageb4 is localized in the cytoplasm of spermatogonia.Second,Mageb4^-/Y male mice displayed significant increases in apoptosis.However,Mageb4^-/Y male mice showed normal fertility,including normal sperm concentration,sperm motility,and testicular and epididymal histology.Conclusions:These findings suggest that,despite testis-exclusive expression,Mageb4 is dispensable for mouse spermatogenesis.Future research should focus on the role of this gene in apoptosis,aiming to provide clinical guidance regarding male infertility.