{"id":73,"date":"2011-02-08T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T00:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:13:42","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Polyporales<\/em> is a clade of Agaricomycetes (Basidiomycota) that has historically been the repository for many of the macrofungi with poroid hymenophores (spore-bearing structures), including those with tough or perennial fruiting bodies (e.g., <em>Fomes<\/em>, <em>Ganoderma<\/em>), but excluding the fleshy <em>Boletales<\/em>. It is now well-established that \u201cpolypores\u201d have evolved repeatedly in groups such as the <em>Hymenochaetales, Gloeophyllales, Russulales and Thelephorales<\/em>, and that not all <em>Polyporales<\/em> are poroid. Some of the non-poroid <em>Polyporales<\/em> include gilled mushrooms (<em>Lentinus, Panus<\/em>) and \u201ccauliflower fungi\u201d (<em>Sparassis<\/em>), but by far the greatestdiversity of non-poroid Polyporales are corticioid fungi, which are resupinate, crust-like forms. The <em>Polyporales<\/em> contains a major concentration of wood-decay fungi, as well as some timber pathogens. They play an important role in the carbon cycle, and their ligninolytic and cellulolytic enzymes have come under scrutiny for use in biofuel production, bioremediation, and other \u201cgreen\u201d technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Polyporales<\/em> contains ca. 1800 described species, of which roughly 40% are corticioid (<em>Meruliaceae, Phanerochaetaceae,<\/em> etc). However, it is estimated that only about 5-10% of extant fungal species have been described. Corticioid forms are cryptic and understudied, so it is likely that they are particularly underdescribed. Moreover, mating studies and analyses of molecular data have repeatedly shown that even \u201cwell-known\u201d, conspicuous fungal taxa, such as \u201csulfur shelf\u201d polypores (<em>Laetiporus<\/em> spp.), often harbor extensive cryptic diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The main research projects developed under Polypeet are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/projects\/polyporales\/\">Higher-level systematics of the <strong><em>Polyporales<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/projects\/trametes\/\"><strong><em>Trametes<\/em><\/strong> and related taxa <\/a>(Core Polyporoid clade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/projects\/phanerochaete\/\"><strong><em>Phanerochaete<\/em><\/strong> and related taxa <\/a>(Phlebioid clade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Phlebia<\/em><\/strong> and related taxa (Phlebioid clade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Antrodia<\/em><\/strong> and related taxa (Antrodia clade)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Other<em> Polyporales<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Visit the individual pages for background information and new results (as they become available) for each Polypeet research project<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polyporales is a clade of Agaricomycetes (Basidiomycota) that has historically been the repository for many of the macrofungi with poroid hymenophores (spore-bearing structures), including those with tough or perennial fruiting bodies (e.g., Fomes, Ganoderma), but excluding the fleshy Boletales. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/projects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/polypeet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}