Dear Colleagues, I would like to plan a project on the diversity of wood decay fungi in the hilly district of Rangamati. Would you please suggest me the steps to follow gradually?
- First, you have to identify the fungi attacking wood in your area of living by DNA-based, multiplex PCR method that can detect and identify many important wood rot fungi
- Second, you could collect the fungi specimen and confirm the identification morphologically
- Thirdly, you could begin to look for preservatives to avoid wood decay
Dear Partha
An inventory of wood decay fungi is a long term project. if you are going to base your data on fruiting bodies of the mushrooms you requiere at least a lot of field work and support by expert taxonomies to identify your collections. Step by step methods for fungi inventories can be found in:
Rossman, A. Y. (1998). Protocols for an all taxa biodiversity inventory of fungi in a Costa Rican conservation area. Parkway Publishers, Inc..
You also can do an inventory based on DNA sequences. For this you need much less fiend work but a lot of expertise in molecular biology and bioinformatics.
The best alternative would be to joint both methods:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14509/full
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Hi Partha
Some useful references on attachment 1
http://www.timesuptermite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DryRot-WoodDecayFungi.pdf
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https://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/wood-decay/
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https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/herbarium-and-resources/national-herbarium-of-victoria/fungi-collections/wood-decay-fungi
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https://www.greening.gov.hk/filemanager/content/pdf/tree_care/Note_on_Common_Wood_Decay_Fungi_on_Urban_Trees_of_HK(May2015)_e.pdf
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http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.py.29.090191.002121
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https://thealmonddoctor.com/2013/04/16/tree-loss-from-wood-decay-fungi/
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https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/2975568/Threesomes-destabilise-certain-relationships
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https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-016-0525-y
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https://www.esf.edu/nekda/documents/WoodDecay-Anagnostsmallversion_000.pdf
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