“…Recent comparisons of basidiomycete genomes show that the borderline between white-rot and brown-rot fungi is not as strict as previously thought and many brown-rotters such as F. pinicola, P. placenta and G. trabeum do have laccase genes in their genomes (Riley et al, 2014). Laccase is produced by D. squalensis (Susla et al, 2007), P. rivulosus (Hakala et al, 2005), T. pubescens (Palmieri et al, 2000), F. pinicola (Gramss et al, 1999), P. placenta (Wei et al, 2010), P. pulmonarius (De Souza et al, 2004), P. radiata (Arora and Gill, 2001), P. abieticola (Koutrotsios and Zervakis, 2014), P. velutina (Boddy, 2000), A. praecox and P. ostreatus . Although the studied basidiomycetes P. pulmonarius, P. radiata, D. squalens, P. rivulosus, C. unicolor, P. abieticola, P. velutina, A. praecox, T. pubescens, P. ostreatus, F. pinicola and P. placenta produced laccase, they did not decolorize all studied dyes indicating that other enzymes than laccases were involved in decolorization of the tested dyes.…”