Wilcoxina is a genus of fungi in the family Pyronemataceae. It was circumscribed by Chin Yang and Richard Korf in 1985.[1] Some species have been shown to produce the siderophore compound ferricrocin.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Pezizomycetes |
| Order: | Pezizales |
| Family: | Pyronemataceae |
| Genus: | Wilcoxina Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985) |
| Type species | |
| Wilcoxina mikolae (Chin S.Yang & H.E.Wilcox) Chin S.Yang & Korf (1985)
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| Species | |
Species are cosmopolitan in distribution, and have been found growing with host plants in a wide variety on environments, such as nursery soils with high pH, mining sites with low pH and heavy metal contamination, natural forests and plantations, urban areas and peat soils.[3] Wilcoxina species are mycorrhizal, and commonly infect a variety of conifers and deciduous trees such as Pinus, Betula, and Quercus species.[4]
References
edit- ^ Yang CS, Korf RP (1985). "A monograph of the genus Tricharina and of a new, segregate genus, Wilcoxina (Pezizales)". Mycotaxon. 24: 467–531.
- ^ Prabhu V, Biolchini PF, Boyer GL (1996). "Detection and identification of ferricrocin produced by ectendomycorrhizal fungi in the genus Wilcoxina". BioMetals. 9: 229–234.
- ^ Mikola P. (1988). "Ectendomycorrhiza of conifers". Silva Fennica. 22: 19–27.
- ^ Hagedorn C, Nakas JP (1990). Biotechnology of Plant–Microbe Interactions. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 227–255. ISBN 978-0-07-045867-3.
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