How many fungal species on our planet

Ref ID: 19313

Author:

Bing Wu, Wenjiao Cai, Xingzhong Liu

Author address:

State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
100101, China

Full conference title:

Asian Mycological Congress 2013 and the 13th International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium

Date: 19 August 2014

Abstract:

Fungi are the secondary largest organism on earth and the numbers of fungal species have
been estimated to be 1,500,000, 616,320 61617; 308,100 and 5,100,000 by different scientists. Development
of culture-independent method has resulted in a new insight of fungal diversity. A number of high ranks of
fungi such as Cryptomycota, Archaeorhizomycetes have been determined and reported. Studies on fungi
in unusual niches have indicated that many unculturable fungi could be culturable on certain substrates
and conditions. The literature survey on the fungi resulted from culture dependent method and
independent method has made us to predict the numbers of fungal species on earth. Based on the fungal
species estimation (1,500,000) with ratio of plant species coupled with the rate of uncultured fungi and
culturable fungi, the numbers of fungal species on earth is estimated to be 3.6-5.1 million. Therefore
about 97-98% of fungal species on Earth have not been described. A huge number of OTUs have been
detected in various niches have not been connected with fungal species. A strategy for connecting OTUs
to fungal species was recommended to realize the OUT sequence to fungal cell, body to life cycle by
FISH method.

Abstract Number: s4-06

Conference Year: 2013

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