Wilcoxina
| Wilcoxina | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Pyronemataceae |
| Genus: | Wilcoxina Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985) |
| Type species | |
| Wilcoxina mikolae (Chin S.Yang & H.E.Wilcox) Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985) | |
| Species | |
|
W. alaskana | |
Wilcoxina is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. Species are cosmopolitan in distribution, and have been found growing with host plants in a wide variety on environments, such as nursery soils with high pH, mining sites with low pH and heavy metal contamination, natural forests and plantations, urban areas and peat soils.[1] Wilcoxina species are mycorrhizal, and commonly infect a variety of conifers and deciduous trees such as Pinus, Betula, and Quercus.[2] Some species have been shown to produce the siderophore compound ferricrocin.[3] Wilcoxina was circumscribed by Chin Yang and Richard Korf in 1985.[4]
References
- ↑ Mikola P. (1988). "Ectendomycorrhiza of conifers". Silva Fennica 22: 19–27.
- ↑ Hagedorn C, Nakas JP. (1990). Biotechnology of Plant–Microbe Interactions. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 227–255. ISBN 978-0-07-045867-3.
- ↑ Prabhu V, Biolchini PF, Boyer GL. (1996). "Detection and identification of ferricrocin produced by ectendomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Wilcoxina". BioMetals 9: 229–234.
- ↑ Yang CS, Korf RP. (1985). "A monograph of the genus Tricharina and of a new, segregate genus, Wilcoxina (Pezizales)". Mycotaxon 24: 467–531.
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