IMA Fungus 2(2): 191-199, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.02.10
Advances in Glomeromycota taxonomy and classification
Fritz Oehl‡, Ewald Sieverding§, Javier Palenzuela|, Kurt Ineichen¶, Gladstone Alves Da Silva#‡ Ecological Farming Systems, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station (ART), Zürich, Switzerland§ University of Hohenheim, Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics, Stuttgart, Germany| Estación Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC, Departamento de Microbiologia del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Granada, Spain¶ University of Basel, Basel-Zürich Plant Science Center, Institute of Botany, Basel, Switzerland# Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Departamento de Micologia, CCB, Recife, Brazil
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Oehl F, Sieverding E, Palenzuela J, Ineichen K, Da Silva G (2011) Advances in Glomeromycota taxonomy and classification. IMA Fungus 2(2): 191-199. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2011.02.02.10 |  |
Abstract
Concomitant morphological and molecular analyses have led to major breakthroughs in the taxonomic organization of the phylum Glomeromycota. Fungi in this phylum are known to form arbuscular mycorrhiza, and so far three classes, five orders, 14 families and 29 genera have been described. Sensu lato, spore formation in 10 of the arbuscular mycorrhiza-forming genera is exclusively glomoid, one is gigasporoid, seven are scutellosporoid, four are entrophosporoid, two are acaulosporoid, and one is pacisporoid. Spore bimorphism is found in three genera, and one genus is associated with cyanobacteria. Here we present the current classification developed in several recent publications and provide a summary to facilitate the identification of taxa from genus to class level.
Keywords
Archaeosporomycetes, endomycorrhizas, evolution, Gigasporales, Glomerales, Glomeromycetes, Paraglomeromycetes, phylogeny, VA mycorrhiza