Ivan V. Zmitrovich

Russian Academy of Sciences | RAS · Komarov Botanical Institute

Красная книга Архангельской области. Архангельск: САФУ, 2020. 490 с.

Eukaryotes represent a group of rich biotechnological potential, and its classification having high heuristic power and great predictive capabilities is needed by the biotechnological community. The requirements for biological classification by applied sciences can be reduced to 1) the stability of the classification system and 2) its adequacy to t...

The species richness and composition of macro- and microfungi on vine species in the parks of Ekaterinburg City (the Ural macroregion, Russia) located in the southern boreal vegetation subzone in a continental climate was studied. The average annual air temperature has increased by 3.1 °C since the beginning of the 20th century; therefore, the cond...

Fungi are eukaryotes that play essential roles in ecosystems. Among fungi, Basidiomycota is one of the major phyla with more than 40,000 described species. We review species diversity of Basidiomycota from five groups with different lifestyles or habitats: saprobic in grass/forest litter, wood-decaying, yeast-like, ectomycorrhizal, and plant parasi...

The present notice continues our acquaintance with the mycological heritage of Johann Christian Buxbaum (1693-1730). A total of 5 "Centuria" (sets of 100 species) under the title "Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatos" were published by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In the fourth "Centuria" issue we...

Two species of Katsura trees - Cercidiphyllum japonicum and Cercidiphyllum magnificum – are presented in the collection of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the BIN after V. L. Komarova RAS in St. Petersburg since the early 1930s. It reaches a size of 13.5 m high in C. magnificum and up to 17.6 m in height in C. japonicum with a trunk diamete...

An updated annotated list of aphyllophoroid fungi species of the Ussuriysky Nature Reserve is presented based on new information accumulated between 2008 and 2020. The list consists of 238 species including 16 new species for this area (Amaropostia stiptica, Boreostereum radiatum, Chondrostereum purpureum, Dentipellis fragilis, Haploporus odorus, H...

The article gives a review of the book: G.A. Savostyanov. Structural bases of developmental biology and 3D histology. New approach to carcinogenesis studies. SPb: Lema, 2020. 832 p. Keywords: specialization and integration, multicellularity, development, histions, polymerization, modeling, cell sheets, histoarchitecture, cell mosaic, morphogenesis,...

A total of 11 ascomycete and 116 basidiomycete species have been recorded for the first time from 30 administrative regions of Russia: species). An annotated species list containing the data on location, substrate, habitat type and voucher numbers is provided. Favolaschia calocera, Hygrophorus exiguus, and Laetisaria lichenicola are reported as the...

Species composition of basidiomycetous macrofungi (class Agaricomycetes) associated with vines in Ekaterinburg Сity environment was revealed and characterized for the first time. Over a hundred-year history of the study of the macrofungal diversity on this type of substrate was analyzed. A total of 108 species were identified during field and herba...

The monitoring of trees and shrubs state in the arboretum of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden during 2016‒2020 has revealed the frost cracks in 410 species of trees and shrubs belonging to 34 genera and 20 families of vascular plants. The most common frosts cracks are found in hardwood species such as Acer platanoides (124 exemplars) and Quercu...

Description of a new species Crepidotus wasseri

Several specimens of putative Lentinus pilososquamulosus (including the type specimen) and Le. martianoffianus from Siberia and the Russian Far East associated with different hosts and collected during the past two decades were studied. Morphological examination of the studied specimens showed a close similarity to specimens of Lignomyces vetlinian...

The aim of this study is to test the effect of aqueous, ethereal and alcoholic extracts of the fruit bodies of the wooddestroying fungus Inonotus rickii on locomotor activity resulting from contraction of both cross-striated and smooth muscles. The pharmacological activity of I. rickii raw materials was determined in vitro using the dose-response c...

The aim of this study is to test the effect of aqueous, ethereal and alcoholic extracts of the fruit bodies of the wood-destroying fungus Inonotus rickii on locomotor activity resulting from contraction of both cross-striated and smooth muscles. The pharmacological activity of I. rickii raw materials was determined in vitro using the dose-response...

The mycological heritage of Johann Christian Buxbaum is still little explored, but this issue has not only a great historical interest. In recent taxonomy, there is a tendency to the splitting of “linneones” species complexes and in some cases, it becomes justified even to appeal to pre-Linnean authors. The corpus of remarkable Buxbaum’s drawings i...

The present notice continues our acquaintance with the mycological heritage of Johann Christian Buxbaum (1693-1730). A total of 5 "Centuria" (sets of 100 species) under the title "Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatos" were published by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In the second "Centuria" issue we...

The present notice continues our acquaintance with the mycological heritage of Johann Christian Buxbaum (1693–1730). A total of 5 “Centuria” (sets of 100 species) under the title “Plantarum minus cognitarum centuria circa Byzantium et in Oriente observatos” were published by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In the fourth “Centuria” issue we...

This article is dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Solomon P. Wasser and discusses the challenges within the research direction he founded with Professors T. Mizuno, S.T. Chang, and other colleagues, known as medicinal mushroom science. This research organically grows out of taxonomic studies, since understanding of the classification system lead...

Fungi are a promising source of biologically active compounds. Here we publish new data on the antiviral activity of some Agaricomycetes species. We studied the antiviral activity of the total polysaccharide fraction of aqueous extracts from fruiting bodies of eight Agaricomycetes (Hygrophorus agathosmus, H. quelitii, H. speciosus, Clitocybe nebula...

The purpose of the present review is the analysis of modern knowledge on use of medicinal mushrooms metabolites in cancer treatment, including in vitro experiments and clinical studies, with a preliminary assessment of the prospects for the development at least of some tactics of immunotherapy for malignant neoplasms. The data on the efficacy of ad...

A total of 72 basidiomycete species have been recorded for the first time from 13 administrative regions of Russia: Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast, Saint-Petersburg, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....

Обзор состояния изученности известного в России грибного лекарственного сырья – чаги – вызван необходимостью обобщить сведения о воздействии его отдельных компонентов на молекулярные мишени раковой клетки. Сырье чаги (стерильные наросты гриба Inonotus obliquus) представляет собой комплекс грибной ткани, продуктов деградации и продуктов ассимиляции...

A review of research field related to well-known Russian medicinal fungal material, Chaga, is caused by the need to summarize information about the effects of its individual compounds on molecular targets of cancer cells. Chaga raw material (sterile bodies of the fungus Inonotus obliquus) is a complex fungus tissue which includes wood degradation p...

The present notice opens a paper series devoted to rare and interesting species of micromycetes causing rust and leaf spots found in various regions of Russia. In June 2019, an interesting species Chrysomyxa succinea, new to the European territory of Russia, was revealed at Peter the Great Botanical Garden of Komarov Botanical Institute (Saint Pete...

Fig. 1. New for Russia (a, b), European Russia (c), St. Petersburg and the Leningrad regions (d, e) as well as the red data book (f, g) xylotrophic basidiomycetes revealed of the territory of old park at the “Blizhnie Dubki” estate: a, b – Truncospora atlantica upperside (a) and hymenophore (b); c – Pseudotomentella griseopergamacea; d – Porostereu...

The present paper summarizes our knowledge on the distribution of species of the genus Sistotrema in Russia. The taxonomic history of the genus is considered and its morphological characteristic is given. The taxonomic position of the genus is accepted in the Hydnaceae family of the order Cantharellales. In total, 22 species of the genus are curren...

In 1723, between Lakhta and Lisiy Nos settlements, east of the village of Verpelevo, the Peter's estate "Blizhnie Dubki" was created including a rectangular park of regular style, approximately 250 × 300 m in size. To date, the park has been abandoned, although its drainage system continues to function. The vegetation in this drained territory is r...

In the Jubilee paper devoted to Professor Shu-Ting Chang, we aimed to outline an applicability of Le Chatelier principle to various fields, especially to the cancer biology and immunotherapy of malignant neoplasms. Cancer progression has been shown would be associated with a response to cell stress and survival agents. It was proclaimed that cancer...

The rust fungus Melampsora arctica was described by Rostrup from Greenland in 1888. The uredinium and telium stages of this fungus were confined to polar Salix spp. In 1899, the spermatogonium and aecium stages associated with this species were revealed on Saxifraga spp. During the XX century, M. arctica has been consistently recorded in all region...

The present paper summarizes our knowledge on the distribution of species of the genus Clavulina in Russia. The taxonomic history of the genus is considered and its morphological characteristic is given. The taxonomic position of the genus is accepted in the Hydnaceae family of the order Cantharellales. In total, 7 species of the genus are currentl...

Exobasidium representatives cause various deformations of the aerial part of ericaceous, theaceous, and lauraceous plants. In the course of the present research carried out on the territory of the oceanic sector of the European middle taiga subzone in the vicinity of the Vaskelovo settlement (Leningrad Region), we found rather little-known species,...

We present a new record for the polypore Meripilus giganteus (Fr.) P. Karst., 1882 from Dubki Park, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is one of the northernmost records in Europe for this species. The morphological description of M. giganteus LE 287654 is given and its ecological preferences, which highlight an unusual ecological situation of this spe...

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly published, currently used basidiomycete genera to date in a single document. An outline of all genera of Basidiomycota is provided, which includes 1928 currently used genera names...

The opening series aims to publish the authors’ photographs of different years. The families Coniophoraceae, Hygrophoropsidaceae, Paxillaceae, Serpulaceae, and Tapinellaceae are exhaustively characterized and 32 photo tables are presented for boreal taxa of the families in question. New genus Penttilamyces was described and five new combinations we...

The theme of morphoses in agaricomycetes seems to be an important issue for two reasons. The first one, our knowledge on marginal and deviant forms sufficiently extends our understanding of intraspecific polymorphism, which makes the diagnostics procedure to be more accurate. The second one, the description of little-known ecotypes have a certain t...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Chaetomella pseudocircinoseta and Coniella pseudodiospyri on Eucalyptus microcorys leaves, Cladophialophora eucalypti, Teratosphaeria dunnii and Vermiculariopsiella dunnii on Eucalyptus dunnii leaves, Cylindrium grande and Hypsotheca eucalypto...

Description of a new species Crepidotus tobolensis

In this review we outline a framework in which mycotherapy is effective in the field of oncology. We suppose that irreversible epigenomic changes in cancer cells and achieving their replicative immortality when cancer-specific targets are absent should take away any illusions about a fundamental possibility of pharmacological blockage of the cancer...

The purpose of this study was to compile a comprehensive characterization of little-known polypores, which have recently been found to possess anticancer activity and thus can also be used in cancer target therapy. Haploporus odorus is a polypore of Holarctic distribution and have been found by harvesters working in taiga floodlands and broadleaf f...

A total of 62 species of fungi have been recorded for the first time from 15 administrative regions of Russia: Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Kirov Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Magadan Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Republic of Bashkortostan, Sverdlovsk Oblast,...

Ganoderma applanatum is one of the most common polypore in the world. However, due to the variability of its macro- and even micro-characters, it is rather difficult to compile an exact picture of distribution of this fungus both in the world as a whole and in its different regions. At the same time, in cities all the Ganoderma representatives are...

The brown roll-rim mushroom (Paxillus involutus) quickly produces biomass in nature, although, being a mycorrhizal fungus, it is rather poorly maintained in culture. Information about its toxic properties is controversial. Until the mid-20th century, the species was considered as an edible fungus; however, data later accumulated regarding its poiso...

The Red Data Book of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic is an official publication containing information on the characteristics, distribution, ecological, biological and phytocenotic features, limiting factors and measures for the protection of plant species, fungi and animals, approved by the Government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic "On the l...

This paper provides additions to the biota of aphyllophoroid fungi of the Solovetsky Archipelago. To date, the list includes 307 species of aphyllophoroid fungi, 22 of them are found only in the territory in question. A previously published list was supplemented with 31 species of aphyllophoroid fungi, including 9 species new for the Arkhangelsk Re...

Seventeen species of aphyllophoroid fungi (Antrodiella ichnusana, Athelia bombacina, Bankera violascens, Ceraceomyces eludens, Crustoderma corneum, Mycoacia fuscoatra, Peniophora erikssonii, Phellodon melaleucus, Ph. niger, Radulodon aneirinus, Sistotrema sernanderi, Steccherinum lacerum, Tomentella griseoumbrina, Tomentellopsis echinospora, Trechi...

Nomenclatural novelties : Ivan V. Zmitrovich Cerioporus subgen. Datronia (Donk) Zmitr., comb.nov. IF552559 Basionym: Datronia Donk, Persoonia 4(3): 337 (1966) Ganoderma subgen. Haddowia (Steyaert) Zmitr., comb.nov. IF553985 Basionym: Haddowia Steyaert, Persoonia 7(1): 108 (1972) Ganoderma subgen. Humphreya (Steyaert) Zmitr., comb.nov. IF553976 Basi...

A total of 94 species of fungi have been recorded for the first time from 11 administrative regions of Russia: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Volgograd Oblast, Vologda Oblast, Komi Republic, Mari El Republic, Republic of Tatarstan. An annotated species list containing the...

The system of the family Polyporaceae is presented and the overview of the order Polyporales is carried out. The family Polyporaceae s. str. was subdivided into three subfamilies, Polyporoideae, Trametoideae, and Lopharioideae. The largest subfamily Polyporoideae was subdivided into the tribes Polyporeae, Epitheleae (trib. nov.), Lentineae, and Gan...

The history of taxonomical study of the genus Panus Fr. (Meruliaceae, Polyporales, Basidiomycota) is considered. A current revision of the genus in Russia was carried out. Two species of the genus Panus were recorded in various regions of Russia, Panus conchatus (Bull.) Fr. and P. lecomtei (Fr.) Corner. For P. conchatus, the lateral ecotype with co...

The results of a study of the more than century-long history of taxonomic and ecological structures of basidial macromycete biota in polar deserts of the Northern Hemisphere are discussed. Nowadays, 77 species of macromycetes are known from this region, 40 species of which are agaricoid fungi, 30 are aphyllophoroid, and 7 are gasteromycetes. The hi...

Diversification of many taxa of thelephoroid fungi is associated with basidiome reduction via transition to life and sporulation within caverns of windfall-soil complexes as well as between fallen logs and moss cover in boreal forests. The present expertise observation regarding the xylotrophic fungi and its niches. The present report describes a n...

The Oomycota represent a peculiar chromalveolate group which evolving to osmo-heterotrophic life direction. The most primitive representatives of this group are holocapric and parasitizing the algae and nematodes. They are devoid of specific fungus-like features and have rather complex an extrusion apparatus reminiscent those of parasitic alveolate...

One of the factors of tree and shrub species pathogenesis in park arboreta, which leads to their elimination from the collection, is their interaction with aborigine mycobiota, i.e. with pathogenic species that damage current shoots and leaves, and xylosaprotrophs that cause chronic wood decay. The authors have conducted a long-term micological mon...

During two years of investigation (2016-2017), frostу craсks at Arboretum of the Peter the Great Botanical Garden (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) were identified in 383 trees of 82 taxa of 32 genera of 19 families, including 16 trees of 13 taxa of 6 genera of 3 families in gymnospermous trees and 367 trees of 69 taxa of 26 genera of 16 families in angio...

The purpose of this study was to comprehensively characterize little-known polypores that have recently been found to possess anticancer activity and thus can be used in targeted cancer therapy. Funalia trogii is a polypore with bipolar distribution and has been found by harvesters working in taiga forests, broadleaf forests, and forest-steppes of...

A total of 114 species of fungi have been recorded for the first time from 14 administrative regions of European Russia: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Belgorod Oblast, Kirov Oblast, Murmansk Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Oryol Oblast, Penza Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Tula Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Republic of Crimea, Republic of Tatarstan. An annotated species list c...

Herein we present a checklist of aphyllophoroid fungi of the Solovetsky Archipelago, located in the White Sea (Arkhangesk Region, European Russia). The annotated list contains 275 species belonging to 139 genera of aphyllophoroid basidiomycetes (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota). Eight species (Athelia bombacina, Ceraceomyces tessulatus, Clavariadelph...

The paper is devoted to taxonomical revision of Cerioporus ( Polyporus) squamosus ( Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes, Polyporaceae) using of comparative-morphological analysis as well as ITS rDNA data set. A separate species, Cerioporus rangiferinus was restored on the basis of analysis of ITS divergence and ecological and morphological features. An e...

Deviant form of wood-decaying basidiomycete Neolentinus lepideus was found in western Siberia, the rare sterile form N. lepideus f. ceratoides was found in the Novosibirsk Region. The description and an illustration of taxon is provided. The sterile form does not produce a hymenophore. It is formed under conditions of darkness on wood constructions...

The first record of Leptosporomyces mundus in Russia is reported. The short note on distribution of this species in East Europe as well as main diagnostic features are presented. An detailed description of Russian material on the species is given and additional Transcarpatian (Ukraine) material is cited. It is supposed that the earlier record of L....

The analysis of the occurrence of aphyllophoroid fungi on islands of the Kiy Archipelago (Onezhskiy District, Arkhangelsk Region) is carried out for the first time. In total, 150 species of aphyllophoroid fungi were revealed. Among them, 10 species (Amylocorticium suaveolens, Athelia phialophora, Atheloderma orientale, Dichomitus campestris, Odonti...

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Nomenclature revision and enlarged taxonomical descriptions are still needed for some well-known species whose interpretation is complicated by many nomenclature or taxonomical problems. The polyporoid fungus widely known as Trametes ochracea (= Coriolus zonatus) belongs to such a problematic group. At the same time, recent data show that this spec...

The material on rare species Radulodon erikssonii (Meruliaceae) and Radulomyces (Radulodon) copelandii (Pterulaceae) was studied. It was shown that previous records of Radulodon erikssonii for the Leningrad Region really belong to Radulomyces copelandii, whereas Radulodon erikssonii is presented by single specimen, which corresponds only partly to...

The analysis of the occurrence of aphyllophoroid fungi on islands of the Kiy Archipelago (Onezhskiy District, Arkhangelsk Region) is carried out for the first time. In total, 150 species of aphyllophoroid fungi were revealed. Among them, 10 species (Amylocorticium suaveolens, Athelia phialophora, Atheloderma orientale, Dichomitus campestris, Odonti...

A new record of rare species of pleurotoid Lingnomyces vetlinianus was made in Urals, in the «Chusovaya River» Nature Park (Sverdlovsk Region, Russia). The species in question was described by S. Domański as Pleurotus member, later this was transferred into Resupinatus by M. Moser, and recently it was adopted for monotypic genus Lignomyces. In prev...

A new record of rare species of pleurotoid Lingnomyces vetlinianus was made in Urals, in the «Chusovaya River» Nature Park (Sverdlovsk Region, Russia). The species in question was described by S. Domanski as Pleurotus member, later this was transferred into Resupinatus by M. Moser, and recently it was adopted for monotypic genus Lignomyces. In prev...