| common environmental factors explain both ectomycorrhizal species diversity and pine regeneration variability in a post-fire mediterranean forest. | natural seedling regeneration and establishment after stand replacing wildfires is influenced by a series of environmental and biological constraints. in this study, we characterized the diversity and structure of the ectomycorrhizal (ecm) fungal community associated with post-fire naturally regenerated maritime pine saplings, and individuate the environmental factors responsible for fungal species distribution. we also identify the main environmental factors responsible for maritime pine regene ... | 2011 | 21301892 |
| cloning and characterization of farnesyl diphosphate synthase from the rubber-producing mushroom lactarius chrysorrheus. | farnesyl diphosphate is involved in rubber biosynthesis as an initiating substrate for both polyprenol and mushroom rubber. so far, we have isolated the cdna of a farnesyl diphosphate synthase (fps) for the first time from a rare rubber-producing mushroom, lactarius chrysorrheus, by the degenerate rt-pcr technique based on sequence information of fps genes from fungi and yeasts. the open reading frame was clarified to encode a protein of 381 amino acid residues with a calculated molecular weight ... | 2004 | 15564677 |