Volatile constituents of wood-rotting basidiomycetes

Volatile sesquiterpenes from fungi: what are they good for?

“…Not many volatile sesquiterpene alcohols have been reported from fungi but the majority of them were detected in Basidiomycota. Drimenol (56) and transnerolidol (5) together with the hydrocarbons daucene (82) and γ-calacorene (35) are known from Gloeophyllum odoratum , Rösecke et al 2000, torreyol (40) from Clitocybe illudens (Nair and Anchel 1973), -barbatene (87) and trans-nerolidol (5) (Rösecke et al 2000). From Lentinellus cochleatus -copaene (92), -cadinene (30), α-calacorene (33), trans-nerolidol (5), cubenol (41), epicubenol (42), fokienol (8) and farnesol (3) have been identified ).…”

“…From Fomitopsis pinicola a huge diversity of sesquiterpene hydrocarbons, e. g. α-cubebene (84), α-longipinene (88), α-ylangene (93), α-(92) and β-copaene (94), 6-protoilludene (109), sativene (100), longifolene (113), α-(86) and β-barbatene (87), β-caryophyllene (61), (E)-β-farnesene (2), α-(24) and γ-muurolene (25), α-(26) and γ-amorphene (27), γ-(29) and δ-cadinene (30), trans-calamene (31) and β-calacorene (34) and the alcohols trans-nerolidol (5), 1-epi-cubenol (42) and α-cadinol (46) have been reported (Rösecke et al 2000). Although the volatiles had an effect no specific activity on insects for these sesquiterpenes has been found (Fäldt et al 1999).…”

Wood production, wood technology, and biotechnological impacts

“…Most wood-rotting fungi belonging to the basidiomycetes on artificial nutrientrich medium as well as on the natural substrate wood typically release linear aliphatic C8 compounds such as 1-octene, octan-1-ol, 1-octen-3-ol, 2-octenal, 2-octen-1-ol, octan-3-one, and octan-3-ol (Rösecke et al 2000, Ewen et al 2004.…”

Volatiles from submerged and surface‐cultured beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica

“…α-Pinene and (Z)-linalool oxide were metabolites of several basidiomycetes. 14,26,28 The amounts of D-fenchol in cork slabs obviously increased upon the attack of the cork by a saprophytic basidiomycete Armillaria mellea. 29 D-Fenchol was also detected in the fruiting bodies of the wild basidiomycete Cystoderma carcharias, 22 and (E)-nerolidol occurred in the fruiting bodies of the same species.…”