Phylogenetic Relationships of Pezizales and Allied          Ascomycetes
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Dr. James Kimbrough of the University of Florida will                   continue his electron-microscopic studies of fungi of the orders                Pezizales and Tuberales in order to improve recognition of the                  genera and families constituting these orders and to begin                      determining the evolutionary lineages among these saprobic and                  mycorrhizal organisms. Tuberales includes the well-known edible                 truffles, species of which have evolved a subterranean existence                through a mycorrhizal attachment to the roots of host trees.  Dr.               Kimbrough's fine-scale analysis of developmental and                            microchemical features of the spore-discharge apparatus of these                fungi is providing data showing the phylogenetic linkage of these               subterranean organisms to better-known aboveground cup-fungi. His               work will test theories about the evolution of hypogeous                        (belowground) truffle taxa from the more numerous epigeous                      (aboveground) taxa of Pezizales, particularly the likelihood that               several parallel occurrences of this peculiar subterranean mode                 of life have evolved among ascomycete fungi.
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{'Code': '112700', 'Text': 'Evolutionary Processes'}
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