Outcome of interspecific interactions among brown-rot and white-rot wood decay fungi
Abstract
Interspecific mycelial interactions among brown-rot fungi resulted in either deadlock or replacement of one fungus by the other. Similarly, most of the brown-rot fungi deadlocked with some or all of the whitre-rot fungi tested, while a few were able to replace some of the white-rot fungi. The results indicate similarities in interspecific mycelial interactions among brown-rot fungi and between brown-rot and white-rot fungi. The results further suggest that some brown-rot fungi are capable of invading and occupying domains within white-rot fungal communities in decaying wood.
- Publication:
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology
- Pub Date:
- January 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1994.tb00086.x
- Bibcode:
- 1994FEMME..14...19O
- Keywords:
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- Basidiomycetes;
- Fungal communities;
- Decomposing wood;
- Interspecific interactions