Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0059273

Zusammenfassung

Mycology includes various aspects such as ethnomycology, food mycology, medical mycology, mycorrhizal symbiosis, taxonomy and ecology of fungi. It has been demonstrated that fungi represent the second largest organism group after the arthropods, totalizing about 1.5 million species worldwide. Although modern mycology becomes a routine tradition in temperate and boreal countries, very little is known about mycodiversity from the tropics. Still, it is expected that tropical areas host unrevealed high diversity of fungi, of nutritional, pharmaceutical, ecological and agricultural signific...