Special Interest Group Meeting

Ecological role of hyphal/mycelial structures in interactions between fungi and other organisms

PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS NOW FULL

Organisers

Akira Suzuki, Faculty of Education/Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Japan
Prof. Xingzhong Liu, PhD, Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology & Lichenology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Fungi form many different kinds of hyphal (mycelial) structures, such as toxocysts, haustria, appressoria, constricting rings, mycelial cords, screlotia, pelotons, etc. The roles of some structures, e.g. constricting rings, appressoria and haustria, in the interactions between fungi and other organisms have been examined extensively. However, the roles of most hyphal (mycelial) structures in interactions between other fungi and with other organisms have not been fully investigated. Some have multiple functions, e.g., mycelial cords have roles in searching for new resources, translocation of water and nutrients, and in offensive and defensive interactions with other organisms. In this SIG meeting, we are planning to discuss the offensive and defensive roles of the hyphal (mycelial) structures on the interactions among fungi and between fungi and other organisms, including plants, vertebrates and invertebrates. For further understanding of the ecological roles of hyphal/mycelial structures in the interactions, we will discuss not only direct roles but also indirect roles, e.g. production of volatile and diffusible organic compounds.

Programme

10:00 Overview: Offensive and defensive role of hyphal/mycelial structures in interactions between fungi and other organisms
Akira Suzuki, Faculty of Education/Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Japan

10:15 Production and role of volatile organic compounds during interspecific basidiomycete interactions in soil and wood
Nawal Elariebi & Lynne Boddy, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK

10:35 The art and design of harmony: molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis
Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

10:55 Tête à tête inside a plant cell: the intracellular infection structures of biotrophic fungal pathogens
Richard J. O'Connell, Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany

11:15 Grazing on hyphae: fruit body and larval structures in fungus-beetle interactions
Dmitry S. Schigel, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland

11:35 Role of cystidia and hairy structures in fungus resistance to feeding by Collembola
Taizo Nakamori, Laboratory of soil Ecology, Environmental and Information Science, Yokohama National University, Japan

11:55 Co-evolution between fungi and nematodes
Xingzhong Liu, Key Laboratory of Systematic Mycology & Lichenology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

12:15 Observations on fungi in Zoopagaceae and Cochlonemataceae
Masatoshi Saikawa, Department of Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan

12.30 End of SIG Meeting