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Primary fluorescence (Autofluorescence) of fruiting bodies of the wood-rotting fungusFomes fomentarius

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Autofluorescence of fruiting bodies of the wood-rotting fungusFomes fomentarius has been observed and is described among native macrofungi for the first time. The strongest yellow autofluorescence with blue excitation was displayed by pith sets, a weaker yellow, yellow-green to yellow-red fluorescence was due to generative thin-walled hyphae while the weakest yellow-reddish fluorescence was emitted by thick-walled skeletal hyphae (though their parts may emit a more intensive yellow fluorescence). This yellow, yellow-green to yellow-red autofluorescence was assessed to be more intensive than the emission described so far in bacteria and fungi (except for lysed hyphae of the fungusTrametes versicolor). With green excitation allF. fomentarius cells emitted strong red autofluorescence.

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This work was supported by grant no. 522/03/0187 of theGrant Agency of the Czech Republic andInstitutional Research Concept no. AV 0Z 5020 0510.

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Žižka, Z., Gabriel, J. Primary fluorescence (Autofluorescence) of fruiting bodies of the wood-rotting fungusFomes fomentarius . Folia Microbiol 51, 109–113 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02932164

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