Biology:Cyttaria
Cyttaria (From Greek Kyttaros, meaning "cell of a honeycomb")[1] is a genus of ascomycete fungi. About 10 species belong to Cyttaria, found in South America, Australia and New Zealand, which are obligatory parasites of southern beech trees from the genus Nothofagus.[2][3][4] The "llao llao" fungus Cyttaria hariotii, one of the most common fungi in Andean-Patagonian forests, has been shown to harbor the yeast Saccharomyces eubayanus, which may be source of the lager yeast S. pastorianus cold-tolerance.[5][6]
Description
Morphology
Cyttaria was originally described by mycologist Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1842.[7] The ascomata of Cyttaria species are porous with an orange color. Each ascomata consists of multiple apothecia immersed in a gelatinous stroma.[8] Asci are 8 spored, inoperculate and amyloid.[8]
Distribution
Cyttaria is found exclusively on the southern hemisphere, being commonly found in southern Chile, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia. Its distruibution mirrors the one of Nothofagus.[4][9]
Ethnomycology
Certain species of Cyttaria were traditionally consumed by some indigenous groups in southern Chile and Argentina, and continue to be a part in local cuisine.[4][10]
References
- ↑ "Definition of CYTTARIA" (in en). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cyttaria.
- ↑ Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. 2008. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- ↑ Moesbach, Ernesto Wilhelm de (1992) (in es). Botánica indígena de Chile. Andres Bello. ISBN 978-956-13-0970-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=2MED9w1W9VUC&q=pinatra+Especies+bot%C3%A1nicas+consumidas+por+los+chilenos+prehisp%C3%A1nicos.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Vidal, Viviana Salazar (2020-08-10). "Actualización del conocimiento del género Cyttaria Berk. (Cyttariales, Ascomycota) en Chile" (in es). Boletín Micológico 35 (1). doi:10.22370/bolmicol.2020.35.1.2397. ISSN 0719-3114. https://revistas.uv.cl/index.php/Bolmicol/article/view/2397.
- ↑ Fungi of the Andean-Patagonian Forests. Buenos Aires: Vazquez Mazzini Editores. 1995. ISBN 9509906379.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Onestopshopfungi | Cyttaria" (in en-GB). https://onestopshopfungi.org/cyttaria/.
- ↑ Peterson, Kristin R.; Pfister, Donald; Bell, Charles D. (2010). "Cophylogeny and Biogeography of the Fungal Parasite Cyttaria and Its Host Nothofagus, Southern Beech" (in en-US). Mycologia (Mycological Society of America) 102 (6): 1417–1425. doi:10.3852/10-048. ISSN 0027-5514. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8954813.
- ↑ "Digueñe - Arca del Gusto" (in en-US). https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/diguene/.
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