Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
2.7
3.2
Journals
Life
Special Issues
Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems:...
share announcement

Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems: 2nd Edition

A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 4589

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Armin Mešić

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: mycology (biodiversity, taxonomy, molecular phylogeny; ecology of fungal communities, and fungal biogeography); environmental microbiology (fungal and bacterial communities); nature conservation (conservation of fungi and their habitats)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Ivana Kušan

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Ruđer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: taxonomy, phylogeny; ecology of fungi
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Although knowledge around fungi has evolved rapidly in recent years, the real magnitude of its biodiversity remains unknown, and the level of exploration globally very low. Today, we still know less than 10% of total fungal diversity. Fungi are among the most important organisms around the world, and the sustainability of both terrestrial and marine ecosystems is strongly dependent on them. The vast majority of plants form mutualistic relationships with fungi, while saprotrophic fungi play a key role in nutrient cycling. Increasingly more useful bioactive compounds are discovered in various fungal species, and their use is being tested in medicine, agriculture, food production, and other various aspects of biotechnology. Biodiversity is being revealed today much faster due to modern molecular methods such as metabarcoding, which brings us to the point where we can start understanding the real role of fungi and their life cycles in the natural environments. However, we still lack basic taxonomic knowledge on most of the fungal groups that can help us to put all this information into a context. Therefore, basic mycological research should still be strongly encouraged in the 21st century. This Special Issue will focus on all these aspects, accepting both original scientific articles and reviews on topics such as taxonomy, biodiversity, ecology, phylogeny, and evolutionary biology of fungi, as well as various fields of applied mycology.

Dr. Armin Mešić
Dr. Ivana Kušan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Life is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Biodiversity
  • Taxonomy
  • Phylogeny
  • Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Metabarcoding
  • eDNA

Published Papers (3 papers)

Download All Papers
Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

14 pages, 3645 KiB  
Article
New Species of Neocosmospora (Ascomycota) from China as Evidenced by Morphological and Molecular Data
by Zhao-Qing Zeng and Wen-Ying Zhuang
Life 2023, 13(7), 1515; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13071515 - 06 Jul 2023
Viewed by 1026
Abstract
Species of Neocosmospora are commonly found in soil, plant debris, and living woody or herbaceous substrates and occasionally found in water and air. Some species are reported as saprobes, endophytes, opportunistic pathogens of plants and animals, or producers of bioactive natural products, cytotoxic [...] Read more.
Species of Neocosmospora are commonly found in soil, plant debris, and living woody or herbaceous substrates and occasionally found in water and air. Some species are reported as saprobes, endophytes, opportunistic pathogens of plants and animals, or producers of bioactive natural products, cytotoxic compounds, and industrial enzymes. To reveal the species diversity of Neocosmospora, specimens from different provinces of China were investigated. Five new species, Neocosmospora anhuiensis, N. aurantia, N. dimorpha, N. galbana, and N. maoershanica, were introduced based on morphological characteristics and DNA sequence analyses of combined calmodulin (CAM), the internal transcribed spacer (ITS), the second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (RPB2), and the translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1) regions. Differences between these new species and their close relatives are compared in detail. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems: 2nd Edition)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

22 pages, 6903 KiB  
Article
Bryorutstroemia (Rutstroemiaceae, Helotiales), a New Genus to Accommodate the Neglected Sclerotiniaceous Bryoparasitic Discomycete Helotium fulvum
by Hans-Otto Baral, Zuzana Sochorová and Michal Sochor
Life 2023, 13(4), 1041; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13041041 - 18 Apr 2023
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 1586
Abstract
The new genus Bryorutstroemia is established for the red-brown, stipitate, bryoparasitic discomycete Helotium fulvum Boud. Combined phylogenetic analysis of ITS and LSU rDNA and EF1α revealed that Bryorutstroemia fulva belongs to the sclerotiniaceous clade, which comprises the paraphyletic families Rutstroemiaceae and Sclerotiniaceae. Bryorutstroemia [...] Read more.
The new genus Bryorutstroemia is established for the red-brown, stipitate, bryoparasitic discomycete Helotium fulvum Boud. Combined phylogenetic analysis of ITS and LSU rDNA and EF1α revealed that Bryorutstroemia fulva belongs to the sclerotiniaceous clade, which comprises the paraphyletic families Rutstroemiaceae and Sclerotiniaceae. Bryorutstroemia formed with Clarireedia a supported clade (Rutstroemiaceae s.l.), though with high distance. Bryorutstroemia closely resembles other Rutstroemiaceae in having uninucleate ascospores with high lipid content and an ectal excipulum of textura porrecta, but is unique because of its bryophilous lifestyle and is extraordinary with its thick-walled inamyloid ascus apex. Although B. fulva was described in 1897, very few records came to our notice. The present study summarizes the known distribution of the species, including 25 personal collections from the years 2001–2022. Bryorutstroemia fulva was most often encountered on Dicranella heteromalla, and rarely on other members of Dicranales or Grimmiales, while inducing necrobiosis of the leaves. A detailed description based on mainly fresh apothecia is provided together with a rich photographic documentation. Six new combinations are proposed based on our phylogenetic results and unpublished personal morphological studies: Clarireedia asphodeli, C. calopus, C. gladioli, C. henningsiana, C. maritima, and C. narcissi. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems: 2nd Edition)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

18 pages, 11348 KiB  
Article
The Unexpected Identity of Tympanis vagabunda
by Luis Quijada, Hans-Otto Baral and Donald H. Pfister
Life 2023, 13(3), 661; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030661 - 28 Feb 2023
Viewed by 1438
Abstract
Tympanis species (Leotiales) are plant pathogens distributed mostly in northern temperate ecosystems. The diversity and identity of some species remains unclear. Tympanis vagabunda, found in Sicilia (Italy) on dry twigs of Rosa, Rubus, and Pistacia, is one example of [...] Read more.
Tympanis species (Leotiales) are plant pathogens distributed mostly in northern temperate ecosystems. The diversity and identity of some species remains unclear. Tympanis vagabunda, found in Sicilia (Italy) on dry twigs of Rosa, Rubus, and Pistacia, is one example of an obscure and poorly known species. During the study of its type specimen in S, which contained one twig with a wood anatomy fitting neither of the three mentioned hosts, the microanatomic structures indicated that it belongs to the genus Rutstroemia (Helotiales). To investigate its identity, the types of R. fruticeti, R. juniperi, R. urceolus, and R. longiasca were studied for comparison. The species for which molecular data were available were included in a dataset that contained identified species of Rutstroemia, along with other select species from the families Rutstroemiaceae and Sclerotiniaceae. R. fruticeti, a saprobe frequently reported from Rubus fruticosus in Europe, is found to be a later synonym of T. vagabunda, and the combination Rutstroemia vagabunda is proposed. R. juniperi is an infrequently reported European species on twigs of Juniperus and is morphologically hard to distinguish from R. vagabunda; available molecular data support its recognition as a distinct species. R. longiasca differs from R. vagabunda in its black apothecia, smaller asci, and narrower ascospores. R. urceolus differs from R. vagabunda in having black apothecia and smaller inamyloid asci, and excipulum at the flanks and margin is composed of dark-walled hyphae. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biodiversity and Ecology of Fungi in Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems: 2nd Edition)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-3
Back to TopTop