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Sahay Ram Bose (1922) "Polyporaceae of Bengal: Polyporaceae of Bengal VI" in Proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciience 1919 pp.
Sahay Ram Bose (1923) "Polyporaceae of Bengal: Polyporaceae of Bengal VII" in Proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciience 1920 pp.
Sahay Ram Bose (1928) "Polyporaceae of Bengal: Polyporaceae of Bengal IX" in Journal of the Department of Science, Calcutta University 9 pp.
William Alphonso Murrill (1902) "The Polyporaceae of North America: I. The genus Ganoderma" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 29:10 pp.
William Alphonso Murrill (1903) "The Polyporaceae of North America: V. The genera Cryptoporus, Piptoporus, Scutiger and Porodiscus" in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 30:8 pp.
William Alphonso Murrill (1905) "A key to the stipitate Polyporaceae of temperate North America: I." in Torreya 5:2 pp.
Aphyllophorales - Polyporaceae - transverse section of tubes: the hymenium is stained light blue.
Aphyllophorales - Polyporaceae - three-year-old basidioma of Ganoderma applanatum with three tube layers.
Aphyllophorales - Polyporaceae - large basidioma of Bridgeoporus (Oxyporus) nobilissimus.
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Members of Polyporaceae, the most commonly used medicinal mushroom in Europe, demonstrated a number of members with antibacterial action.
In 1950, German researchers found a water extract of Boletus edulis (Polyporaceae) to have a growth retarding effect on Sarcoma 180 tumours in mice.
The Polyporaceae, the family to which Fomitopsis officinalis and Piptoporus betulinus belong, was a family noted to contain many members with an anticancer action.
Fungi that become corky or woody with age, often forming shelflike growths on trees; Also called: family Polyporaceae.
Woody pore fungi; any fungus of the family Polyporaceae or family Boletaceae having the spore-bearing surface within tubes or pores; the fruiting bodies are usually woody at maturity and persistent;
A fungus with a lateral stalk (when there is a stalk) and a scaly cap that becomes nearly fl in maturity; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere; Also called: scaly polypore.
We recently discovered that the triterpene acid compound dehydrotrametenolic acid promotes adipocyte differentiation in vitro and acts as an insulin sensitizer in vivo.
Organism scientific names at the family level of taxonomy are often based on a "type genus" name with the same root – e.g.
Polyporaceae and Polyporus – and conflating the two levels can be useful.
Thus, fungi that form large, perennial conks on dead tree trunks i.e.
the Polyporaceae sensu lato or that form extensive foliose mats in old-growth forests i.e.
Fruiting bodies of species of Ganoderma sensu lato and other members of the Polyporaceae sensu lato are known to be consumed for medicinal and nutritional purposes (Ryvarden, 1993; Ying, et al., 1987).
Polypores (family Polyporaceae and similar fungi) can be easily distinguished from the other common poroid fungi, the boletes, by their typically hard exterior, their usual "non-mushroom" shape, and their usual growth on wood as wood decomposers.
Most of these belong in the family Polyporaceae, but 5-7 other families (such as Ganodermataceae, Albatrelllaceae, Bondarzewiaceae, Fistulinaceae, and Hymenochaetaceae) are also now represented.
This paper will focus on the types of macroscopic and microscopic characters that may be used to identify polypores to genus and to species, the ecological niches occupied by these interesting fungi, and how they can be exploited for human use.
Higher concentrations of effective antibacterial agents from polypore fungi validates that this barely explored group, in particular those with a long history of folkloric use by indigenous peoples, should be carefully surveyed.
Extracts of cultures of this mushroom are currently the subject of in vitro scan investigations for antibacterial properties based, in part, upon a long history of folkloric use in the Russian Far East.29 Extracts of shiitake (Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler, Polyporaceae) were recently reported to inhibit growth of S.
A small study reported that the symptoms of 12 of 13 women with chronic yeast infections were substantially alleviated after a daily consumption of maitake (Grifola frondosa (Dicks.:Fr.) S.F. Gray, Polyporaceae).
NHBS - Opera Botanica Belgica, Volume 11: Polypores (Polyporaceae s.l.) of Papua New Guinea - E Quanten
Opera Botanica Belgica, Volume 11: Polypores (Polyporaceae s.l.) of Papua New Guinea
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type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g.
: a genus (the type of the family Polyporaceae) of fungi having fruiting bodies that are sessile or borne on a stipe and including important pathogens of various trees and in some classifications the fungus (Fomes officinalis syn.
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