Global food and fibre security threatened by current inefficiencies in fungal identification

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1709, 2016, Pages

  Crous, Pedro W ^a,b,c   Groenewald, Johannes Z ^a   Slippers, Bernard ^b   Wingfield, Michael J ^b  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cryptic diversity; DNA barcoding; Fungal taxonomy

Indexed keywords

DNA; FOOD SECURITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GUIDELINE; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGEN; QUARANTINE; TAXONOMY;

FUNGI;

ANALYSIS; CATERING SERVICE; CLASSIFICATION; DIETARY FIBER; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PLANT DISEASE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

DIETARY FIBER; FOOD SUPPLY; FUNGI; MYCOSES; PLANT DISEASES;

EID: 84992472515     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0024     Document Type: Review

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