The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

C. Eastwood, Daniel; Floudas, Dimitrios; Binder, Manfred; Majcherczyk, Andrzej; Schneider, Patrick; Aerts, Andrea; O. Asiegbu, Fred; Baker, Scott; Barry, Kerrie; Bendiksby, Mika; Blumentritt, Melanie; M. Coutinho, Pedro; Cullen, Dan; P. de Vries, Ronald; C. Gathman, Allen; Goodell, Barry; Henrissat, Bernard; Ihrmark, Katarina; Kauserud, Håvard; Kohler, Annegret; LaButti, Kurt; Lapidus, Alla; Luis Lavín, José; Lee, Yong‐Hwan; Lindquist, Erika; W. Lilly, Walt; Lucas, Susan; Morin, Emmanuelle; Murat, Claude; A. Oguiza, José; Park, Jongsun; G. Pisabarro, Antonio; Riley, Robert; Rosling, Anna; Salamov, Asaf; Schmidt, Olaf; Schmutz, Jeremy; Skrede, Inger; Stenlid, Jan; Wiebenga, Ad; Xie, Xinfeng; Kües, Ursula; S. Hibbett, David; Hoffmeister, Dirk; Högberg, Nils; Martin, Francis; V. Grigoriev, Igor; C. Watkinson, Sarah

doi:10.1126/science.1205411

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The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

Published in Science • Jul 15, 2011

Authors:

Daniel C. Eastwood

Dimitrios Floudas

Manfred Binder

Abstract

Brown rot decay removes cellulose and hemicellulose from wood--residual lignin contributing up to 30% of forest soil carbon--and is derived from an ancestral white rot saprotrophy in which both lignin and cellulose are decomposed. Comparative and functional genomics of the "dry rot" fungus Serpula l...

Subject

Decomposer

Fungus

Convergent evolution

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