Global InformationCairneyella information
| Cairneyella | |
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| Cairneyella variabilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi
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| Division: | Ascomycota
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| Class: | Pezizomycotina
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| Order: | Helotiales
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| Family: | Helotiaceae
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| Genus: | Cairneyella Midgley & Tran-Dinh
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| Type species | |
| Cairneyella variabilis (Midgley & Tran-Dinh)
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Cairneyella is a genus of at least two ericoid mycorrhizal and root-associated fungi that is, to date, endemic to Australian plants, mostly from the family Ericaceae.[1] It has been demonstrated to form typical ericoid mycorrhizal coils in hair roots and is known to enhance the growth of ericaceous seedlings.[2] The genus is named in honour of John Cairney, an Australian-Scottish mycologist.
- ^ Midgley DJ.; Rosewarne CP.; Greenfield P.; Li D.; Vockler CJ.; Hitchcock CJ.; Sawyer NS.; Brett R.; Edwards J.; Pitt JI; Tran-Dinh N. (2016). "Genomic insights into the carbohydrate catabolism of Cairneyella variabilis gen. nov. sp. nov., the first reports from a genome of an ericoid mycorrhizal fungus from the southern hemisphere". Mycorrhiza. 26: 345–52. doi:10.1007/s00572-016-0683-6.
- ^ Palmer J.; Horton BM.; Allaway WG.; Ashford AE. (2004). "Growth stimulation of Woollsia pungens by a natural ericoid mycorrhizal fungal endophyte". Australasian Mycologist. 26: 1–8.