Biology:Cyttaria

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Cyttaria
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Cyttaria from Chile growing in a tree branch
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Cyttariaceae
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Cyttaria

Berk. (1842)
Type species
Cyttaria darwinii
Berk. (1842)
Species

C. berteroi
C. darwinii
C. espinosae
C. gunnii
C. hariotii
C. nigra

Cyttaria sp. - MHNT

Cyttaria is a genus of ascomycete fungi. About 10 species belong to Cyttaria, found in South America and Australia associated with or growing on southern beech trees from the genus Nothofagus.[1] The "llao llao" fungus Cyttaria hariotii, one of the most common fungi in Andean-Patagonian forests,[2] has been shown to harbor the yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus, which may be source of the lager yeast S. pastorianus cold-tolerance.[3] Cyttaria was originally described by mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1842.[4]

References

  1. Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 
  2. Fungi of the Andean-Patagonian Forests. Buenos Aires: Vazquez Mazzini Editores. 1995. ISBN 9509906379. 
  3. "Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (35): 14539–44. 2011. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105430108. PMID 21873232. 
  4. Berkeley MJ. (1842). "On an edible fungus from Tierra del Fuego, and an allied Chilian species". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 37–43. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1842.tb00073.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5438737. 

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