Basidiomycota

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A new lineage in Pucciniomycotina: class Tritirachiomycetes, order Tritirachiales, family Tritirachiaceae. 
  • Asymmetric drop coalescence launches fungal ballistospores with directionality. 
  • Comparison of 5.8S ribosomal DNA sequences among the basidiomycetous yeast genera Cystofilobasidium, Filobasidium and Filobasidiella. 
  • Conserved elements of the RAM signaling pathway establish cell polarity in the basidiomycete Cryptococcus neoformans in a divergent fashion from other fungi. 
  • Continental-level population differentiation and environmental adaptation in the mushroom Suillus brevipes. 
  • Cryptococcosis and the basidiospore. 
  • Distribution and diversity of planktonic fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool. 
  • Environmental variation mediates the deleterious effects of Coleosporium ipomoeae on Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • Evolution of host range in Coleosporium ipomoeae, a plant pathogen with multiple hosts. 
  • Fungi that Infect Humans. 
  • Gamma-L-glutaminyl-3,4-benzoquinone. Structural studies and enzymatic synthesis. 
  • Genetic isolation between two recently diverged populations of a symbiotic fungus. 
  • Genetics of resistance to the rust fungus Coleosporium ipomoeae in three species of morning glory (Ipomoea). 
  • Into and out of the tropics: global diversification patterns in a hyperdiverse clade of ectomycorrhizal fungi. 
  • Isolation from the mushroom Agaricus bisporus and chemical synthesis of gamma-L-glutaminyl-4-hydroxybenzene. 
  • Isolation of -L-glutaminyl 4-hydroxybenzene and -L-glutaminyl 3,4-benzoquinone: a natural sulfhydryl reagent, from sporulating gill tissue of the mushroom Agaricus bisporus. 
  • Lactarius subgenus Russularia (Basidiomycota, Russulales): novel Asian species, worldwide phylogeny and evolutionary relationships. 
  • Major-gene resistance to the rust pathogen Coleosporium ipomoeae is common in natural populations of Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • Mechanism of action of a respiratory inhibitor from the gill tissue of the sporulating common mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. 
  • Metatranscriptomic analysis of ectomycorrhizal roots reveals genes associated with Piloderma-Pinus symbiosis: improved methodologies for assessing gene expression in situ. 
  • Molecular and genetic evidence for a tetrapolar mating system in the basidiomycetous yeast Kwoniella mangrovensis and two novel sibling species. 
  • Morphological and genomic characterization of Filobasidiella depauperata: a homothallic sibling species of the pathogenic cryptococcus species complex. 
  • Natural selection on a polymorphic disease-resistance locus in Ipomoea purpurea. 
  • One hundred and seventeen clades of euagarics. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships of Rhizoctonia fungi within the Cantharellales. 
  • Phylogeny and phenotypic characterization of pathogenic Cryptococcus species and closely related saprobic taxa in the Tremellales. 
  • The Paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes. 
  • The cantharelloid clade: dealing with incongruent gene trees and phylogenetic reconstruction methods. 
  • The captured launch of a ballistospore.