Species diversity of pathogenic wood-rotting fungi (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) in China

Yuan Yuan; Lu-Sen Bian; Ying-Da Wu; Jia-Jia Chen; Fang Wu; Hong-Gao Liu; Guang-Yu Zeng; Yu-Cheng Dai

doi:10.1080/21501203.2023.2238779

Species diversity of pathogenic wood-rotting fungi (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) in China

Mycology. 2023 Aug 8;14(3):204-226. doi: 10.1080/21501203.2023.2238779. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Yuan Yuan¹, Lu-Sen Bian², Ying-Da Wu^{1

3}, Jia-Jia Chen⁴, Fang Wu¹, Hong-Gao Liu⁵, Guang-Yu Zeng⁶, Yu-Cheng Dai¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Microbiology, School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
² Experimental Centre of Forestry in North China, Warm Temperate Zone Forestry Jiulong Mountain National Permanent Scientific Research Base, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Forest and Grassland Fire Risk Prevention, Ministry of Emergency Management, China Fire and Rescue Institute, Beijing, China.
⁴ College of Landscape Architecture, Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry, Zhenjiang, China.
⁵ Yunnan Key Laboratory of Gastrodia and Fungi Symbiotic Biology, Zhaotong University, Zhaotong, China.
⁶ Guangxi Forestry Science Research Institute, Nanning, China.

Abstract

Wood-rotting basidiomycetes have been investigated in the Chinese forest ecosystem for the past 30 years. Two hundred and five pathogenic wood-decayers belonging to 9 orders, 30 families, and 74 genera have been found in Chinese native forests, plantations, and gardens. Seventy-two species (accounting for 35% of the total pathogenic species) are reported as pathogenic fungi in China for the first time. Among these pathogens, 184 species are polypores, nine are corticioid fungi, eight are agarics and five are hydnoid basidiomycetes. One hundred and seventy-seven species (accounting for 86%) cause white rot, while 28 species (accounting for 14%) result in brown rot; 157 species grow on angiosperm trees (accounting for 76.5%) and 44 species occur on gymnosperm trees (accounting for 21.5%), only four species inhabit both angiosperms and gymnosperms (accounting for 2%); 95 species are distributed in boreal to temperate forests and 110 in subtropical to tropical forests. In addition, 17 species, including Fomitopsis pinicola, Heterobasidion parviporum, and Phellinidium weirii etc. which were previously treated as pathogenic species in China, do not occur in China according to recent studies. In this paper, the host(s), type of forest, rot type, and distribution of each pathogenic species in China are given.

Keywords: Basidiomycota; forest diseases; tree pathogens; wood-rotting fungi.

Grants and funding

The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 32161143013) and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP, No. 2019QZKK0503).