Available online at www.ijpab.com Shukla et al Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4 (2): 304-310 (2016) ISSN: 2320 – 7051 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2268 ISSN: 2320 – 7051 Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4 (2): 304-310 (2016) Review Article Bambusicolous Fungi: A Reviewed Documentation Arjun Shukla 1*, Aradhna Singh 2, Deepa Tiwari 2, Bhoopendra Kumar Ahirwar 2 1Department of Zoology, Govt. Model Science (Autonomous) College, Jabalpur (M.P.) India 2Department of Zoology, Govt. M.H. College of Home Science, Jabalpur (M.P.) India *Corresponding Author E-mail: [email protected] Received: 13.04.2016 | Revised: 20.04.2016 | Accepted: 22.04.2016 ABSTRACT Bamboo together with Bambusicolous fungi are cosmopolitan recorded abundantly from China and Japan in Asia, but fewer in India and South America. 290 species of Bamboo fungi revealed from tropical region while 690 species were recorded from temperate region. Bambusa, Phyllostachys, Sasa and Arundinaria are the main substrate which gives rich yield of fungi. Fungi included under various taxa such as Hyphomycetes, Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes and Coelomycetes. Endophytes as well as pathogens have also been reviewed and recorded Bamboo fungi traditionally used as medicine and have edible value in China. Keywords: Bamboo, Diversity, Pathogens, Fungi, Species INTRODUCTION World's most important agricultural plant is bamboo under 80 genera worldwide, and about ‘Grass’ 1 include cereals, sugarcane and forage 200 species are found in South-East Asia 3. grasses for farm animals, ornamental grasses and Bamboo occurs all around the world such as in bamboos, each has a significant role in welfare. tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions of all Bamboos are important to conserve and manage continents, but limitedly occurred in Europe forest, such as reduction of soil erosion and also which has no native species. important to Panda conservation 1 and many The genera of bamboo vary in habit. Some are more commercial application as-fishing rod, clump forming or single-stemmed. They may be flute, paper, flouring material, food and energy erect with drooping or pendulous tips, or slender feed stock. The largest flowering plant family and scrambling, or climbing. The main parts are which ranked third in number of genera (ca. the rhizome, shoot, culm, leaf, branch, leaf, 600) and fifth in number of species (ca.7, 500) is inflorescence and fruit. Their rhizome and Poaceae 2. Bamboo belongs in the Poaceae branching systems, the presence or absence of (Gramineae) and form tribe bambuseae of the bristles or hairs on the culms and culms sheaths, subfamily bambusoideae 3,4 . and structures of the inflorescences distinguish There are an estimated 1000 species of the genera of bamboo from each other. Cite this article: Shukla, A., Singh, A., Tiwari, D., Ahirwar, B.K., Bambusicolous Fungi: A Reviewed Documentation, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4(2): 304-310 (2016). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2268 Copyright © April, 2016; IJPAB 304 Shukla et al Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4 (2): 304-310 (2016) ISSN: 2320 – 7051 Bamboo/Bambusicolous Fungi: be attributed to the high diversity of bamboo 6 in In ancient period, the Bamboo fungi was termed several region of China 13 . China is hot spot for as ‘fungorum bambusicolorum’ (Bambusicolous bamboo as well as Bambusicolous fungi. fungi) by 5 which means ‘living on bamboo’. World’s one third bamboo forest occupied in Hyde 6 revealed that Bambusicolous included all China i.e., about 7.2 million hectare which is fungi that grow on bamboo substrates, leaves, mainly distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, culms, branches, rhizomes and roots and enlisted Taiwan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, more than 1,100 species that lived on bamboo Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and worldwide including 630 ascomycetes, 150 Yunnan regions 14 . Yunnan has the richest basidiomycetes and 330 anamorphi c fungi that bamboo diversity in Asia with 210 woody an incomplete and still at the cataloguing stage. bamboo species under 28 genera 15 and Taiwan According to literature search and scanning the has about 50 bamboo species under 9 genera 16,17 . ‘Index of Fungi’. The majority of species from South America Kuai 7 reported 190 pathogenic were recorded from Brazil (59% of the total bambusicolous fungi in Mainland China and colle ctions) by C. Spegazzini, P. Hennings and Taiwan whereas Zhou 8 reviewed 189 species F. MalleI. Forty-four genera (60% of the world's belonging t o 75 genera of bamboo fungi from total number) of bamboo occur throughout main land China and 79 species of 58 genera tropical, subtropical and temperate Asia. There from Hong Kong. Statistical analysis on fungi are more than 290 and 690 species of fungi resulted 183 species of pathogenic fungi on recorded from the tropics and tem perate regions, bamboo in China, included 85 species from 58 respectively. This enormous diversity of plant genera of ascomycetes, 48 species from 58 species in an area is likely to support an equally ge nera of basidiomycetes and 50 species from diverse mycota. 29 genera of hyphomycetes. In Japan 307 There have been some taxonomic/ecological species (Ascomycota 63%; Basidiomycota 10%; studies on bamboo fungi, but these are limited to anamorphic fungi 27%) fewer than 86 bamboo particular localities such as Fran ce 18 Hong taxa was reported 9. Boa 10,11 studied on Kong 6,19 , Japan 20 and the Philippines 21-27 . pathogenic fungi while Eriksson and Yue 12 re- Bamboo occurs along the banks of many streams examined all ascomycetes described as new and rivers in the tropics. The fungi on species from bamboo. Due to unavailability of submerged bamboo are also more diverse, and in comprehensive review of the literature on general differ from those on submerged bamboo fungi so that, this paper attempt to wood 28,29 . provide a general spectral review. A review of variou s literature (Table: 1) Geographical Distribution of Bambusicolous reveals more than 1100 species of fungi have fungi: been recorded from bamboo which comprises Bamboos are highly diverse and are distributed more than 630 ascomycetes, 150 basidiomycetes throughout Asia, especially in China and Japan. and 330 mitosporic taxa 100 coelomycetes and The high number of Bambusicolous fungi may 230 hyphomycetes 6,10-12,18 -27,30-33 . Table : 1 A Reviewed Diversity of Bambusicolous Fungi in the World Ascomycetes Basidiomycetes 21% Coelomycetes 9% 57% Hyphomycetes 13% Copyright © April, 201 6; IJPAB 305 Shukla et al Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4 (2): 304-310 (2016) ISSN: 2320 – 7051 Historical aspects and Diversity Calibration: most widespread genera in tropical and At the first time 34 described Dothideagoudotii subtropical Asia 3 having a large number of Lev. and Sphaeria bambusae Lev. Fungi. species. It may also be due to mycologists use Globally Arundinaria, Bambusa, Phyllostachys Bambusa as a general term for bamboo. There and Sasa genera of bamboo have recorded are more genera of bamboo occurring in tropical highest numbers of fungi out of which species of regions, and yet more fungi are known in the Bambusa in particular have been found to temperate regions 35 . support a high fungal diversity, as it is one of the Table 2: Historical aspects of Bambusicolous fungi shown below Bambusicolous fungi species Year Bamboo species Reference Dothideagoudotii Lev. 1845 leaves of Chusquea species [34] --------- Sphaeriabambusae Lev. ------------ Culms of Bambusaarundinacea. Asterinamicroscopica Lev. 1846 leaves of Chusquea species [36] Sphaeriahypoxantha Lev. ----------- Culms of Bambusaarundinacea Sphaeriafusariispora 1854-1856 Bambusa species [37-39] ------------ Hypoxylonfuscopurpureum --------- Phyllostachys and Sasa species (Schwein.) Berk. Eight new spesies of Ascomycetes 1870-1880 ------------- -------- Ascomycetes followed by 1880-1920 --------------- ------------ Basidiomycetes 104 new spesies of Ascomycetes 1951-1970 [30, 40] ------------- Basidiomycetes --------- [41-44] Coelomycetes 1971 and so on [41] and [45-48] ------------ Hyphomycetes ---------- [30, 32 ,40] and [49-56] Significance of Bambusicolous: host specificity. Mostly Bambusicolous fungi Bambusicolous fungi are generalists, but the are pathogenic. Ceratosphaeria phyllostachydis host plays an important role in determining S. Zhang causes destruction of Phyllostachys species composition, and the structure of fungal pubescens Mazel 7 that made heavy lost of community, especially the relative frequencies bamboo forest in China as well as Stereo stratum of individual species and submerged bamboo corticoids (Berk. & Broome) Man that is used as culms support a significantly higher fungal wide distribution in China and makes bamboo diversity than their terrestrial counterparts. forest a considerable loss. A list of diseases on Similar results were revealed and reported from bamboo was provided by Xu 14 . the woody samples by in which the submerged Some Bambusicolous fungi have medicinal wood supports a higher fungal diversity than the treatment. Engleromyces goetzii Henn., terrestrial wood. Bambusicolous fungi Hypocrella bambusae (Berk. & Broome) Sacc. considered to show Host -Tissue specificity and Shiraia bambusicola Henn., infers that particular fungus is restricted to Polyporusmylittae Cooke et Mass., particular host tissues or organs 57,58 which was Ganodermalucidum (Curtis: Fr.) P. Kars., and G. not all obligate parasitic fungi always have strict lipsiense (Batch) G. F. Atk. have been used as Copyright © April, 2016; IJPAB 306 Shukla et al Int. J. Pure App. Biosci. 4 (2): 304-310 (2016) ISSN: 2320 – 7051 traditional Chinese medicines to treat various the caused by bamboo is Leaf spot diseases human diseases and of economic importance. caused by several species of Phyllachora 10,11,60,63 . Dictyophora indusiata (Vent.) Desv., which is We split fungi into two main groups; the often associated with bamboo, is well known for saprobes, which can obtain their food by its medical and edible value 59 . decomposing dead organic matter and the A common rust named Stereo stratum corticoids pathogens and endophytes, which live on/in (Berk. & Broome) Magn. was reported from on living plant tissues. In general the obligate many bamboo species 7.