Monika Komoń-Zelazowska

TL;DR: Recent progress is reviewed in the understanding of the geographic distribution of individual taxa; mechanisms of speciation leading to development of mushroom diseases and facultative human mycoses; and the possible correlation of specific traits of secondary metabolism and molecular phylogeny.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the evolutionary pathway of T. Pleuroticola could be in parallel to other saprotrophic and mycoparasitic species from the Harzianum clade and that this species poses the highest infection risk for mushroom farms, whereas T. pleurotum could be specialized for an ecological niche connected to components of Pleurotus substrata in cultivation.

TL;DR: It is advocated that Psammocinia, and other sponge genera, may be a prime niche for discovering new fungal species as well as novel anti-fungal compounds from fungal sources.

TL;DR: This is the first inclusive evaluation of marine fungi as potential biocontrol agents and in vitro salinity assays showed that the ability to tolerate increasing osmotic pressure (halotolerance) is a strain- or clade-specific property rather than a feature of a species.

TL;DR: A complex speciation process is detected revealing overlapping reproductively isolated biological species, recent agamospecies and numerous relict lineages with unresolved phylogenetic positions within the Trichoderma harzianum species group.