Five New Wood Decay Fungi (Polyporales and Hymenochaetales) in Korea.

ABSTRACT: The wood decay fungi are a diverse taxonomic group that plays a pivotal role in forest carbon cycling. Wood decay fungi use various enzymatic pathways to digest dead or living wood in order to obtain carbon and other nutrients and these enzymatic systems have been exploited for both industrial and medical applications. Over 600 wood decay fungi species have been described in Korea; however, the recent application of molecular markers has dramatically altered the taxonomy of many of these wood decay fungi at both the genus and species levels. By combining molecular methods, specifically sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region, with traditional morphological characters, this study identified five new species records for Korea in five genera: Aurantiporus, Favolus, <

SUBMITTER: Kim NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5078127 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature