Characterizing the Assemblage of Wood-Decay Fungi in the Forests of Northwest Arkansas.

ABSTRACT: The study reported herein represents an effort to characterize the wood-decay fungi associated with three study areas representative of the forest ecosystems found in northwest Arkansas. In addition to specimens collected in the field, small pieces of coarse woody debris (usually dead branches) were collected from the three study areas, returned to the laboratory, and placed in plastic incubation chambers to which water was added. Fruiting bodies of fungi appearing in these chambers over a period of several months were collected and processed in the same manner as specimens associated with decaying wood in the field. The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) ribosomal DNA region was sequenced, and these sequences were blasted against the NCBI database. A total of 320 different fungal taxa were

SUBMITTER: Alshammari N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8073185 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature