Gene phylogeny of the Ganoderma lucidum complex based on ribosomal DNA sequences. Comparison with traditional taxonomic characters

Species Clarification of the Widely Cultivated Ganoderma in China Based on rDNA and FIP Gene Sequence Analysis

“…The PCR amplified ITS products contained ITS I 188 bp, 5.8S rDNA 158 bp, ITS II 125 bp. The sizes of PCR product from the ITS regions and FIP genes were close to those investigated by and (Moncalvo et al, 1995), respectively. Sequence alignment of the twenty taxa was performed using the ClustalW multiple sequence alignment programs at the Biology Workbench Version 3.2 (Thompson et al, 1994).…”

“…The name of G. lucidum has been applied to collections from North America, East Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, East Asia, Oceania as well as Europe (Wang et al, 2012). The collections named as G. lucidum from different regions of the world have appeared in several separated taxa in phylogenetic biogeographic analyses of the genus Ganoderma (Gilbertson and Ryvarden, 1986;Moncalvo et al, 1995;Gottlieb et al, 2000;Hong and Jung, 2004;Lee et al, 2006). It is obvious that those collections were identified incorrectly, especially if they were not sampled from Europe, and were in need of further taxonomic studies.…”

“…DNA markers that those could be obtained by sequencing methods, are reliable for informative genetic polymorphisms. There are various mature molecular marker techniques that had been widely applied in the classification of Ganoderma strains, such as the encoding regions of the 18S, 5.8S, 28S and ITS regions of nucleotide sequences of the rDNA (Moncalvo et al, 1995;Gottlieb et al, 2000;Smith and Sivasithamparam, 2003;Lee et al, 2006;Sun et al, 2006;Zheng et al, 2009) and mt SSU rDNA (mitochondrial small subunit rDNA) (Hong et al, 2002;Hong and Jung, 2004), etc.…”

Following basal stem rot in young oil palm plantings

“…The species has recently been placed in an ITS based clad together with other palm associated species Moncalvo et al, 1995a; b; c; [1,2,3] Moncalvo, 2000 [4].…”

Revisão do Herbário URM: novas ocorrências de Aphyllophorales para a Amazônia brasileira

“…Ganoderma stipitatum (Murrill) Espécie semelhante à Ganoderma lucidum, que apresenta provável distribuição européia, segundo análise de dados moleculares (Moncalvo et al 1995). Anteriormente registrado para o Pará , representa primeiro registro para o Amazonas.…”