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Genus of fungi
Pochonia
[1] is a
genus of
fungi within the order
Hypocreales and is described as anamorphic
Metacordyceps ; eight
species are described.
[2] Previously placed in the genus
Verticillium , these fungi are known to be pathogenic to
nematodes and are being developed and commercialized as
biological pesticides .
[3]
The genus name of Pochonia is in honour of Jacques Pochon (1907-1978), who was a French doctor and
microbiologist from the
Pasteur Institute .
[4]
Pochonia has been seen to contain ketamine.
[5]
The genus was
circumscribed by
Augusto Chaves Batista and
Ozório José de Menezes Fonseca in Publ. Inst. Micol. Univ. Recife vol.462 on page 4 in 1965.
Species
The
IndexFungorum records the following species;
Pochonia bulbillosa (W. Gams & Malla) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia chlamydosporia (Goddard) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia chlamydosporia var. catenulata (Kamyschko ex G.L. Barron & Onions) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia chlamydosporia var. chlamydosporia (Goddard) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia globispora Zare & W. Gams 2007
Pochonia goniodes (Drechsler) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia humicola Bat. & O.M. Fonseca 1965
Pochonia microbactrospora W. Gams & Zare 2001
Pochonia parasitica (G.L. Barron) G.H. Sung, J.M. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora 2007
Pochonia rubescens Zare, W. Gams & López-Llorca 2001
Pochonia suchlasporia (W. Gams & Dackman) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia suchlasporia var. catenata (W. Gams & Dackman) Zare & W. Gams 2001
Pochonia suchlasporia var. suchlasporia (W. Gams & Dackman) Zare & W. Gams 2001
References
^ Bat., Fonseca OM (1965) Publicações Inst. Micol. Recife 462: 4
^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 150.
ISBN
978-0-85199-826-8 .
^
"RRes - PPM Department - the nematophagous fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia" . Archived from
the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2010 .
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022).
Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names ] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin.
doi :
10.3372/epolist2022 .
ISBN
978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022 .
^ Teng, Si-Qiong (2023).
"Polyketides from the fungus Pochonia chlamydosporia and their bioactivities" [Phytochemistry] (pdf) . United States: Elsevier.
doi :
10.1016/j.phytochem.2023.113747 . Retrieved March 13, 2024 .