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spp. and other fungi. Transactions of the British Mycolo- gical Society 84 , 479– 487. Deacon, J.W., Donaldson, S.J. & Last, ...

Chapter 11 Fungal ecology: saprotrophs This chapter is divided into the following major sections: a theoretical model: the conc ...

chance of establishing in a new environment. The larger mammals are good examples of this, as (in some respects) are the Basidio ...

materials. This limits the value of chitin assays except in well-defined model systems. An alternative method is to estimate the ...

Identifying fungi by oligonucleotide probes As described in Chapter 9, an increasing range of molecular tools such as RFLP, RAPD ...

consort. The types of organisms that are active in these communities can vary, but the overall course of decomposition is simila ...

218 CHAPTER 11 tissues, through to the final stages of decomposition that result in the production of soil humus – a highly comp ...

Fig. 11.6(a) Leaf print of a mature birch leaf, incubated on agar, showing a predominance of a yellow Candida-like fungus that p ...

while the plant was still alive. Classic examples of this are the stem base fungi such as the take-all fungus (Gaeumannomyces gr ...

Fungi that degrade recalcitrant (resistant) polymers Fungi that degrade the more resistant polymers such as lignocellulose (cell ...

best-studied lignin-degrading fungi, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, the production of lignin-degrading enzymes is strongly stimula ...

The fungal community of composts Composts can be made from any type of decompos- able organic matter, stacked into a heap (or lo ...

thermophile(maximum about 55°C, optimum about 50°C) might start earlier than H. insolens(maximum about 55°C, optimum about 37°C) ...

2 During growth on a carbon substrate, fungi convert approximately one-third of the substrate carbon into cellular material (a s ...

other mineral nutrients. All flasks were inoculated with the cellulolytic fungus, Chaetomium thermophile and incubated for 4 wee ...

neutral redwhich accumulates in the intact protoplasts, then a solution of strong osmotic potential is used to shrink the protop ...

2 Even in young root zones, and persisting into the old root zones, a fungus with hyaline (colorless) hyphae is seen in the inne ...

to antagonize and to overgrow other fungi on agar plates (Chapter 12). So they probably grow in the root cortex as secondary (op ...

wall, to gain access to the thick, cellulose-rich S2 layer. When the penetration hyphae find a longitudinal plane of weakness in ...

conditions are quite dry. Serpula lacrymans is also notable because it posed an enigma for a long time: it is very common in poo ...