Neonothopanus nambi

Neonothopanus nambi is a poisonous and bioluminescent mushroom in the family Marasmiaceae.[1][2] The genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this species' bioluminescence were published in 2019, the first to be elucidated for a fungus.[3] In 2020, genes from this fungus were used to create bioluminescent tobacco plants.[4]

Neonothopanus nambi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Phylum:
Basidiomycota
Class:
Agaricomycetes
Subclass:
Agaricomycetidae
Order:
Agaricales
Family:
Marasmiaceae
Genus:
Neonothopanus
Species:
N. nambi
Binomial name
Neonothopanus nambi
(Speg.) R.H. Petersen & Krisai, 1999
Synonyms
  • Agaricus nambi Speg., 1883
  • Pleurotus nambi (Speg.) Speg., 1887

Italian-Argentinian naturalist Carlo Luigi Spegazzini described the species in 1883 as Agaricus nambí in the subgenus Pleurotus, from material collected in December 1879 near Guarapí in Brazil.[5] Pier Andrea Saccardo placed it in the genus Pleurotus.[6] Ronald H. Petersen and Irmgard Krisai placed the fungus in the new genus Neonothopanus in 1999.[7]

References
  1. Hahon, N; Castranova, V (1989). "Interferon production in rat type II pneumocytes and alveolar macrophages". Exp Lung Res. 15 (3): 429–45. doi:10.3109/01902148909087869. PMID 2472956.
  2. Kanokmedhakul, Somdej; Lekphrom, Ratsami; Kanokmedhakul, Kwanjai; Hahnvajanawong, Chariya; Bua-Art, Sureeporn; Saksirirat, Weerasak; Prabpai, Samran; Kongsaeree, Palangpon (2012). "Cytotoxic sesquiterpenes from luminescent mushroom Neonothopanus nambi". Tetrahedron. 68 (39): 8261–8266. doi:10.1016/j.tet.2012.07.057.
  3. Strack, Rita (February 2019). "Harnessing fungal bioluminescence". Nature Methods (Paper). Springer Nature. 16: 140. doi:10.1038/s41592-019-0311-4.(subscription required)
  4. Mitiouchkina, Tatiana; Mishin, Alexander S.; Somermeyer, Louisa Gonzalez; Markina, Nadezhda M.; Chepurnyh, Tatiana V.; Guglya, Elena B.; Karataeva, Tatiana A.; Palkina, Kseniia; Shakhova, Ekaterina S; Fakhranurova, Liliia I.; Chekova, Sofia V.; Tsarkova, Aleksandra S.; Golubev, Yaroslav V.; Negrebetsky, Vadim V.; Dolgushin, Sergey A; Shalaev, Pavel V.; Shlykov, Dmitry V; Melnik, Olesya A.; Shipunova, Victoria O.; Deyev, Sergey M.; Bubyrev, Andrey I.; Pushin, Alexander S.; Choob, Vladimir V.; Colgov, Sergey V.; Kondrashov, Fyodor A.; Yampolsky, Ilia V.; Sarkisyan, Karen S. (April 2020). "Plants with genetically encoded autoluminescence". Nature Biotechnology. doi:10.1038/s41587-020-0500-9.
  5. Spegazzini, Carlos Luigi (1883). "Agaricus nambi". Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina (in Latin). 16 (5): 247.
  6. Saccardo, Pier Andrea (1887). Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. 5. sumptibus auctoris. p. 372.
  7. Petersen, Ronald H.; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard (1999). "Type specimen studies in Pleurotus". Persoonia. 17 (2): 201–19.
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