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Snow Mold Fungi in Russia

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Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World

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Snow mold investigations were made since last century in the European part of the former USSR and the Urals. At the beginning of this century, we organized a number of Russian–Japanese expeditions in Russia to investigate sclerotial snow mold fungi inhabiting different winter conditions. These expeditions have extended distribution areas of Typhula ishikariensis, Sclerotinia borealis, and S. nivalis. T. ishikariensis was first found in the Asian part of the country, i.e., the Urals, Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia, and the Far East. We were the first to record T. ishikariensis species II in the Far East and Eastern Siberia. S. borealis was observed wherever freezing predisposed plants. S. nivalis was first recorded both in European and Asian parts of Russia. We assume that the previously described species such as S. sativa, S. bulborum, and S. intermedia are synonymous with psychrotolerant S. nivalis, but not with mesophilic S. minor. This chapter briefly describes other snow mold fungi such as Microdochium nivale, Sclerotinia trifoliorum, Phacidium infestans, Pythium spp., Typhula incarnata, T. phacorrhiza, and Sclerotium nivale since they were not our main interest of research.

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    Encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference books (Search) available at www.cnshb.ru/AKDiL/0040/k307340.shtm (in Russian).

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    Editors’ note: Matsumoto et al. (1996) described a similar fungus in Norway, “Group II isolates from the Oppland locality often had abundant aerial mycelium. Their sclerotia were small and covered with thick mycelium. Those sclerotia developed normal sporocarps and produced basidiospores. Their mycelia produced on infected plants were usually, but not always, very fluffy.”

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Tkachenko, O. (2013). Snow Mold Fungi in Russia. In: Imai, R., Yoshida, M., Matsumoto, N. (eds) Plant and Microbe Adaptations to Cold in a Changing World. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8253-6_25

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