A new genus and two new species of (Helotiales, Ascomycota) discovered mainly from poaceous grasses native to Asia in Japan.

Mollisioid fungi, represented by (Fr.) P. Karst.

sp. nov. in Japan and morphological and genetic comparison with its relevant species in Europe.

Some Asian fungi are morphologically very similar to European species but belong to different species. A fungus that resembles , which commonly occurs on the petioles of in Europe, was found on the petioles of spp. and other tree leaves in Japan.

Genome Assembly of Stinkhorn Mushroom (Basidiomycota, Fungi) Using Illumina and Nanopore Sequencing Data.

We report the reference genome of isolate MO-923, which was isolated from Chichijima Island, the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan. Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION and Illumina sequence reads were assembled using NECAT and polished using Pilon to yield a 36.51-Mb genome with 10,625 predicted protein-coding genes.

Lifecycle of (, sensu lato) in revealed by field observation and molecular quantification.

Fungi exhibit saprophytic, parasitic, and symbiotic lifestyles, and flexibly switching between them by the environmental changes and host conditions. However, only a few studies have elucidated the detailed changes in fungal DNA or morphology, including the formation of reproductive structures along with lifestyle switching. We hypothesized that , which occurs abundantly and specifically on as a saprophyte, is also associated with living hosts and switches its lifestyles as part of its lifecycle.