… Diagrams found in some publications (6, 121, 266), combined by occasional observations
in our laboratory (U. Kües and E. Polak, unpublished data), suggest that both generation …

Wood is a natural, biodegradable and renewable raw material, used in construction and as
a feedstock in the paper and wood product industries and in fuel production. Traditionally, …

Highlights • Basidiomycetes produce enzymes useful to attack toxic persistent organic pollutants.
• Mainly laccase and peroxidases are considered for water and soil decontaminations. …

Wood is a major pool of organic carbon that is highly resistant to decay, owing largely to the
presence of lignin. The only organisms capable of substantial lignin decay are white rot …

… neoformans and U. maydis were clustered into families using the TRIBE-MCL algorithm (see
Supplementary … neoformans and U. maydis using Tribe-MCL tools 27 with default settings. …

… of the sucrose transporter Srt1 recently described in U. maydis (29) was identified, … In
addition, homologues of U. maydis auxin synthesis genes are also expressed during host …

Brown-rot fungi such as Postia placenta are common inhabitants of forest ecosystems and
are also largely responsible for the destructive decay of wooden structures. Rapid …

Brown rot decay removes cellulose and hemicellulose from wood—residual lignin contributing
up to 30% of forest soil carbon—and is derived from an ancestral white rot saprotrophy in …

Much remains to be learned about the biology of mushroom-forming fungi, which are an
important source of food, secondary metabolites and industrial enzymes. The wood-degrading …

… The presence of homologues of the sid1 or sidA genes (Table 2), encoding a l-ornithine-N
5 -monooxygenase catalyzing the first step in hydroxamate siderophore biosynthesis in U. …