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
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. ↑ Hagedorn C, Nakas JP (1990). Biotechnology of Plant–Microbe Interactions. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 227–255. ISBN 978-0-07-045867-3.
  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.
  4. ↑ 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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