The world’s ten most feared fungi

Hyde, Kevin D.; Al-Hatmi, Abdullah M. S.; Andersen, Birgitte; Boekhout, Teun; Buzina, Walter; Dawson, Thomas L.; Eastwood, Daniel C.; Jones, E. B. Gareth; Hoog, Sybren de; Kang, Yingqian; Longcore, Joyce E.; McKenzie, Eric H. C.; Meis, Jacques F.; Pinson‐Gadais, Laëtitia; Rathnayaka, Achala R.; Richard‐Forget, Florence; Stadler, Marc; Theelen, Bart; Thongbai, Benjarong; Tsui, Clement K. M.

doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0413-9

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“…Human-pathogenic fungi compromise the life of 1.2 billion people worldwide and kill about 1.5-2 million annually, exceeding the fatalities caused by malaria or tuberculosis [87]. Regarding more information on the huge impact of fungal pathogens on human health and food security and the related challenges, the interested reader is referred to the EUROFUNGs white paper from 2016 [4], a review covering the top 10 most feared fungi published in 2018 [88] and to the One Health report published by the American Academy of Microbiology in 2019 [89].…”

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Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

Meyer

Basenko

Benz

et al. 2020

Fungal Biol Biotechnol

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Fungi have the ability to transform organic materials into a rich and diverse set of useful products and provide distinct opportunities for tackling the urgent challenges before all humans. Fungal biotechnology can advance the transition from our petroleum-based economy into a bio-based circular economy and has the ability to sustainably produce resilient sources of food, feed, chemicals, fuels, textiles, and materials for construction, automotive and transportation industries, for furniture and beyond. Fungal biotechnology offers solutions for securing, stabilizing and enhancing the food supply for a growing human population, while simultaneously lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Fungal biotechnology has, thus, the potential to make a significant contribution to climate change mitigation and meeting the United Nation's sustainable development goals through the rational improvement of new and established fungal cell factories. The White Paper presented here is the result of the 2nd Think Tank meeting held by the EUROFUNG consortium in Berlin in October 2019. This paper highlights discussions on current opportunities and research challenges in fungal biotechnology and aims to inform scientists, educators, the general public, industrial stakeholders and policymakers about the current fungal biotech revolution.

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Section: The Janus Face Of Filamentous Fungimentioning

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Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

Meyer

Basenko

Benz

et al. 2020

Fungal Biol Biotechnol

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220

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“…The rotting of damp wooden products is common not only outdoors, but also inside of buildings. In interiors, the rotting of wood is first of all caused by brown-rot fungi [23][24][25]. The genus Coniophora comprises about 20 species frequently occurring in buildings.…”

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The Colour of Tropical Woods Influenced by Brown Rot

Vidholdová

Reinprecht

2019

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Interesting aesthetic properties of tropical woods, like surface texture and colour, are rarely impaired due to weathering, rotting and other degradation processes. This study analyses the colour of 21 tropical woods before and after six weeks of intentional attack by the brown-rot fungus Coniophora puteana. The CIEL*a*b* colour system was applied for measuring the lightness, redness and yellowness, and from these parameters the hue tone angle and colour saturation were calculated. Lighter tropical woods tended to appear a less red and a more yellow, and had a greater hue tone angle. However, for the original woods was not found dependence between the lightness and colour saturation. Tropical woods at attack by C. puteana lost a weight from 0.08% to 6.48%. The lightest and moderately light species—like okoumé, iroko, ovengol and sapelli—significantly darkened, while the darkest species—wengé and ipé—significantly lightened. The majority of tropical woods obtained a brighter shade of yellow, typically wengé, okoumé and blue gum, while some of them also a brighter shade of green, typically sapelli, padouk and macaranduba. C. puteana specifically affected the hue tone angle and colour saturation of tested tropical woods, but without an apparent changing the tendency of these colour parameters to lightness. The total colour difference of tested tropical woods significantly increased in connection with changes of their lightness (ΔE*ab = 5.92 − 0.50·ΔL*; R2 = 0.37), but it was not influenced by the red and yellow tint changes, and weight losses.

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“…Up to now, 120 different wood-destroying fungi in buildings have been identified in central Europe (Huckfeldt and Schmidt 2015). The fungus that causes the most severe damages to European buildings in service is the brown rot producing dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans), which was recently ranked as one of the world's ten most feared fungi (Hyde et al 2018).…”

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Distribution of building-associated wood-destroying fungi in the federal state of Styria, Austria

Haas¹,

Mayrhofer

Habib³

et al. 2019

Eur. J. Wood Prod.

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Wood is an important construction material, but when used incorrectly it can be subjected to deterioration by wood-destroying fungi. The brown rot producing dry rot fungus (Serpula lacrymans) is by far the most dangerous wood-destroying fungus in Europe. In the present publication, 645 fungal samples from damaged wood in the federal state of Styria (Austria) were examined and recorded by isolation date, geographical location, species identification of the wood-destroying fungus, location of damage, construction method, and age and type of building. In Styria, Serpula spp. accounted for 61.5% of damages, followed by Antrodia spp. (10.7%) and the genera Gloeophyllum (8.2%), Coniophora (3.9%) and Donkioporia (1.1%). Properties in the area of the Styrian capital Graz and old buildings were more often infested by wood-destroying fungi than houses in the rural area and new constructions.

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The world’s ten most feared fungi

Cited by 99 publications

References 247 publications

Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

Growing a circular economy with fungal biotechnology: a white paper

The Colour of Tropical Woods Influenced by Brown Rot

Distribution of building-associated wood-destroying fungi in the federal state of Styria, Austria

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