Cyttaria
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| Cyttaria | |
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| Cyttaria from Chile growing in a tree branch | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Subdivision: | Pezizomycotina |
| Class: | Leotiomycetes |
| Order: | Cyttariales |
| Family: | Cyttariaceae |
| Genus: | Cyttaria Berk. |
| Type species | |
| Cyttaria darwinii Berk. |
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C. berteroi |
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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]
References [edit]
- ^ Kirk MP, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th edition. Wallingford: CABI. p. 192. ISBN 0-85199-826-7.
- ^ Gamundi, I.J & E. Horak (1995) Fungi of the Andean-Patagonian Forests. Vazquez Mazzini Editores, Buenos Aires. 141 pp. ISBN 9509906379
- ^ Libkind, D.; Hittinger, C. T.; Valerio, E.; Goncalves, C.; Dover, J.; Johnston, M.; Goncalves, P.; Sampaio, J. P. (August 2011). "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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105430108. PMC 3167505. PMID 21873232.
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