Alan Rockefeller's research while affiliated with Merritt College and other places

... Macro-and micro-morphological features (Guzmán, 2012;Guzman et al., 2014;Rossato et al., 2009) which were previously used to describe taxonomy among psychedelic mushrooms are largely inefficient to describe the variations between the wide range of know psychedelic mushroom species. Thus, current methods in the taxonomical ranking of psychedelic mushrooms relies on sequencing the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region of the ribosomal operon, representing a barcoding region used to sufficiently differentiate between species (Gotvaldová et al., 2022). ...

... The Bayesian inference of phylogeny based on ITS and LSU data ( Figure 1) is consistent with previously published organization of Amanita sect. Phalloideae [31,[33][34][35][36][37]64], although the limited signal provided by the ribosomal regions alone does not resolve most supraspecific nodes supported by the analyses, including protein-coding genes. The Mediterranean 'destroying angels' include at least seven different species. ...

... Wide distribution of mushroom genera can result in ecotype-like adaptations which can broaden genetic diversity and associated phenotypes (Frings et al., 2020). Taxonomic arrangement of Psilocybe mushrooms has been widely debated and re-worked based on continuously emerging data (Cortés-Pérez et al., 2021). Macro-and micro-morphological features (Guzmán, 2012;Guzman et al., 2014;Rossato et al., 2009) which were previously used to describe taxonomy among psychedelic mushrooms are largely inefficient to describe the variations between the wide range of know psychedelic mushroom species. ...

... Gastrodia elata Bl., a food and drug herb, is highly sought after in the current market due to its various effects, including promoting neural differentiation and delaying aging (Hsu et al., 2021;Yang et al., 2021), and its seed germination relies on Mycena fungi to provide nutrients and develop protocorms (Kim et al., 2006;Huang et al., 2018). Mycena fungi are widely distributed in China (Kim et al., 2006;Liu et al., 2015), and 39 species have been reported from the Changbai Mountain region of northeastern China alone (Cortes-Perez et al., 2019;Na and Bau, 2019a,b). Mycena is a diverse genus that includes a large number of species, but only a small number of species exhibit germination effects (Higaki et al., 2017;Na et al., 2022). ...

... These species are characterized by collybioid or mycenoid basidiome, which can be pink, purple, violet, and, rarely, reddish-brown or yellowish. The pileus is glabrous, and the stipe [27] Panellus stipticus (Bull.) P. Karst. ...

... Stipe covering mostly with appressed, slightly interwoven hyphae near the base, and scattered caulocystidia like those of the cheilocystidia. Clamp connections present in most of all hyphal septa (Bigelow and Smith 1973;Ovrebo et al. 2011;Lodge et al. 2014;Hosen et al. 2016). ...

... Modern attention is largely focused on the genus Psilocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm., which is globally distributed (Carod-Artal, 2015;Guzmán, 2005). Discoveries of novel species and subspecies continue to be described (Borovička et al., 2012;Li et al., 2014;Ma et al., 2014;Ma et al., 2016). ...