Biology:Wilcoxina

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Wilcoxina
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Wilcoxina

Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985)
Type species
Wilcoxina mikolae
(Chin S.Yang & H.E.Wilcox) Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985)
Species

W. alaskana
W. mikolae
W. rehmii
W. sequoia

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

  1. Mikola P. (1988). "Ectendomycorrhiza of conifers". Silva Fennica 22: 19–27. 
  2. Biotechnology of Plant–Microbe Interactions. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1990. pp. 227–255. ISBN 978-0-07-045867-3. 
  3. "Detection and identification of ferricrocin produced by ectendomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Wilcoxina". BioMetals 9: 229–234. 1996. 
  4. "A monograph of the genus Tricharina and of a new, segregate genus, Wilcoxina (Pezizales)". Mycotaxon 24: 467–531. 1985. http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59575/0024/0467.htm. 

Wikidata ☰ Q8000334 entry